Re: [Bacula-users] Backup with Bacula on a samba share

giggzounet wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a newbie in the "backup world". Unfortunately my boss would like
> that I install a backup system for our labor. And I'm a little bit lost...
>
> We have 5 pc running under linux opensuse 11.0 (bacula is available for
> opensuse 11.0 : version 2.2.7). On each of these 5 PC we have a user and
> each user has his /home/user on his computer (so we DON'T have a central
> big file server with all the /home on it). We work in an university. The
> computing center of our university give us a backup space of 10TB. But
> the big problem is that this space is just available with samba (no ssh,
> no NFS) : so each user has to mount the samba share with his login and
> password.
>
> So now questions :
> - Is it possible with bacula to backup with our configuration ?
>   

Yes.

> - Will Bacula have problem with the samba protocol ? I mean, will I lose
> the symlink and others special caracteristics of ext3 ?
>   

Bacula does keep symlinks, and hard links, intact.

> - Can I specify in the bacula configuration files the samba share, user
> and password, so that bacula can mount this samba share ?
>   

Yes. There are directives that allow running a script both before and 
after a job, and the scripts can mount and unmount the share.

> - I have read the documentation of your website : If I have understood,
> on each of our 5 PCS we have to install the bacula-client part. But the
> bacula server part can just run on my PC, isn't it ???
>   

Yes

> Thanks in advance,
> Best regards,
> Guillaume
>
>
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