On Oct 22, 2008, at 11:34 PM, James Harper wrote:

>>
>> I would like to understand the way data flows in Bacula a bit better.
>> Does the user data that is being backed up flow straight from the SD
> to
>> the FD? Or does the SD send the data to the director, and the  
>> director
>> then sends the data on to the FD?
>>
>> The reason I'm asking is that I would like to set up bacula to back  
>> up
>> data locally on another site. Basically, I would like the director to
> be
>> on a computer in, say, San Diego, and both the SD and FD would be on
> the
>> same local network in, say, Los Angeles. The same director should  
>> also
>> be able to control a similar SD/FD combination in Miami, New York and
>> Seattle.
>>
>> Obviously, that's not practical if all data has to flow over the
>> Internet and through the director, but if the director only exchanges
>> control information with SD and FD, it might be very practical. Thus
> my
>> question.
>>
>
> The Director tells the SD to expect a connection from the FD, '

I am not sure about that.

> and the FD
> connects directly to the SD for the purposes of sending backup data. I
> think attributes (file information) are then sent from the SD back to
> the Director for each file backed up.


The DIR contacts the FD and gives it the FileSet and the SD that it
should contact.

-- 
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/





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