Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up 3 remote locations

On 12/17/2014 8:24 PM, Heitor Faria wrote:

· Can I “seed” the backup process by copying data to a drive and moving that to the bacula server? This would be done before I start the backup process on bacula.

You don't really need to do anything, since Bacula is responsible to copy data from the clients to the storage daemon (socket connection).

If you want to make a local backup on the remote sites, you can have a Bacula storage daemon on them to make the backups and configure a copy job to your main site.

It is not currently possible to compile the storage daemon for Windows. At least, it is not supported.

· Is there a recommended way to backup remote servers over a VPN connection?

I don't think there is anything special, but your network appliances can be a bottleneck, eventually.

For backups over VPN look into Virtual Full jobs. Basically, once a full backup is completed, only incremental backup jobs need run on the remote servers. A virtual full job combines the previous full (or virtual full) backup with subsequent incremental backups to create a virtual full backup. The creation of the virtual full backup occurs only on the server(s) running Dir and SD. This drastically minimizes the network traffic required, since only incremental job data is transmitted.

However, to get started with virtual full jobs it is necessary to run an initial full backup. Since a full backup over VPN could be extremely slow, one alternative is to install SD on a Linux laptop and physically locate it temporarily on each of the remote site's local networks and backup to disk over the remote site's local network. Once the laptop is back at the central server's local network, a Copy job can copy the full backup jobs to other media.

Thanks!

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Damien Hull

IT Manager

Tikigaq Corporation

301 W. Northern Lights Blvd., Suite 660

Anchorage, AK 99503

(907) 365-6249

dhull AT tikigaq DOT com

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