Steven,
We are actually new to bacula as well. Just now starting to configure it in
a test environment for laptops/desktops. As we do not use exchange here,
nor do we use folder re-direction, our setup is slightly different then
Kevin was talking about. Right now I have a fileset for each individual
client, backing up c:\documents and settings\username. As far as solving
the laptop solution, I have been playing around in the bacula
installation/configuration guide on JobDefs (setting global job definitions
for clients). In this case I am trying out:
Rerun Failed Levels = yes # If a user with a laptop is out during a full
backup, but comes in during a scheduled incremental, it will run the full
backup)
Reschedule On Error = yes # If the server cannot connect to the client, it
will reschedule another backup attempt
Reschedule Interval = 3 hours # after the first failed attempt, it will
attempt another backup 3 hours later
Reschedule Times = 3 # Try 3 times and then error out.
I believe that this solution will work with our laptop users, as they come
and go on a daily basis (meetings and what not). This gives a max of 9
hours for them to be plugged into our network, which is usually good. If
they are out of town and come back, then the next time they connect to the
network during a scheduled backup, it will run the next full job. Im
running this test for the next 2 weeks on 2 different departments, along
with a remote department in another state, so I should have some interesting
results come 14 days from now.
Jayson Broughton
Linux Systems Administrator
True Oil LLC
jbroughton AT truecos DOT com
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Keane [mailto:subscription AT kkeane DOT com]
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 11:47 AM
Cc: Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Newbie: Disk-To-Disk-To-Tape
Steven Palm wrote:
> * I am also looking at BackupPC for our roving laptops, and to give
> them a nice interface to retrieve files. However, is there anywhere
> documentation on how to effectively backup this "pool" via Bacula?
> I've seen lots of references, but so far have found no examples. As
> attractive as this is, if it turns out better to use Bacula all
> around, I'm open to that as well.
>
This depends on your situation, of course, but I found that very often,
backing up workstations really isn't all that useful. Ideally, they
don't hold any data (because the data is stored on a server), and
backing up applications is problematic at best; they would usually need
to be reinstalled anyway. If you have a Windows domain environment
(regardless of whether it's on a Windows or Linux server), you can also
store desktop settings etc. on the server.
An actual Windows server (not a Linux server, though) also has a very
nice interface for retrieving old files.
Of course, that isn't always true; some workstations do hold important
data that isn't replicated anywhere else. So your mileage may vary.
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