Hello,
On 3/22/2006 5:42 PM, Simmel wrote:
Hi guys,
I'd love to ask a few questions if I may :-)
Sure.
I'm quite new to Bacula and tried to set it up on a test server using
Debian Sarge (stable). I got some understanding problems though, and I
hope you can help me with my "brainfarts".
Okay first of all, let me sum up the facts again.
On the server side
There is a director (may be more then one) - Bacula-dir.conf
There is a storage (same
here) - Bacula-sd.conf
There is a database - It's
a postgres DB in Debian (AFAIK mentioned/configured in bacula-dir.conf)
On the client side
There is a file deamon -
Bacula-fd.conf
Right.
I have setup 2 PCs here im my lab and I'm trying to get it started. What
I'd like to do is "just simply" do a complete backup from my host to the
server. The server (in this scenario) should be running all server
daemons/parts, so to speak director, storage and database (all in one).
The client should be backed up completly and in addition to that I'd
like (to try) to be able to install the client from bare metal with the
floppy discs (talking about desaster recovery). After I've achieved
that, I'd like to use SSL (I found a HowTo that covers that quite okay).
But I already stumble over the main config files. I've read the
documentation (apt-get bacula-doc) quite a few times and found out that
there need to be crossreferences, which I don't quite get yet. I hope I
can get some clarification from you guys (would be awesome).
I'm totally new to this topic and I' having a hard time with the
comments, I don't find them very usefull.
I find this astonishing. Admittedly, I never used a debian packaged
installation, but instead, when I first encountered Bacula, I started
with a blank DIR configuration and, reading the manual, managed to get a
working setup rather easily.
If you can't start the DIR with the sample configuration, just work
through the manual. To start the DIR, you need nly a limited set of
configuration sections:
Director, Messages, Catalog and probably Pool. I feel that the sample
configuration with a very limited number of changes should be sufficient
to start the DIR with a configuration tailored to your sites needs.
If you start the DIR with the -t option and it doesn't report an error
then you should be able to start it, create a console configuration, and
connect to the DIR.
And you should only need one Job, one Client, and one Storage section.
2. The hard way. If 1. won't work may I post the original config files
here with my/more questions? Would that be okay?
Sure. But please try to strip the configuration down to the minimum, try
it and report any error messages. I don't think that the DIR refuses to
start without giving some sort of reason for it. If there are no
messages, and you verified that no DIR process is running, retry
starting the DIR, with debug output enabled: -d 50 should give you lots
of messages on the terminal.
Only after you've got the DIR running work on the SD and FD setup, and
Jobs and Filesets etc.
3. FQDN - is this really necessary or is it also possible to use the IP
address. I tried both :-/
Should work both, and you can even use a non-fully qualified domain name
but should know what you do then.
I'm sorry for not being more precise at the moment, hope I don't get
flamed for it.
Usually you won't see many flames here (and I hope this list stay like
that).
More precise error descriptions would be very helpful, though...
I'd be willing to do a HowTo if someone helps me out, so
that next time you could direct Debian User to the docu I made. I'll
have to do it anyhow for my preoject here :-) so why not translate it
into English, no problemo Sir.
Well, if you think it's necessary...
Arno
Thanks in advance for your response,
Simmel or Jens
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