Bill Moran wrote: > I've been deploying Bacula here for a few weeks now. All servers are > being backed up from three locations. Very nice. > > Now it's time to start on the mobile machines. The one that has me > concerned is the one Macintosh laptop that we have. > > Anyone running a Bacula FD on a Macintosh? Is it stable/reliable? > Of course, couple that with the challenge of backing up a laptop > and the whole thing is likely to be challenging. I'm interested > to hear any an all stories and follow any and all links regarding > using Bacula FD on a Mac, and/or laptop. Google was not terribly > helpful, but I may not have been crafting the best search strings. > > TIA for any information. > >
I run it on my Mac (laptop) at home and have run into a couple of issues. First of all, don't use the bacula-fd that comes from Fink. My experience was that it would hang almost nightly and cause any backups from then on to fail until I restarted it. I've had good luck with the version in Darwin Ports, it's been running for about a week now. The only issue there was my WiFi connection going away in the middle of the night. I'm not sure I can blame that on bacula (yet :) ), so it may just be a coincidence. The Darwin Ports version also comes with a launchd config file so you can have it start automatically on boot. -- Dan Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.employees.org/~drich/ | "Step up to red alert!" "Are you sure, sir? | It means changing the bulb in the sign..." | - Red Dwarf (BBC) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
