17.9.2009 12:10, giggzounet kirjoitti:

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 ?

No, no problems like that. Bacula creates its own files where the data
go, and it very well supports Linux filesystems as data.

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

Yes. The mount command in Linux is 'smbmount' or 'mount.cifs'. The
command can take username and password as parameters, and Bacula can be
configured to do the mount.

Another possibility is to mount in /etc/fstab so the samba volume is
always on. But the Bacula mounted volume may be better.

- 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.

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