> P.S. > WE DONOT USE THIS SETUP FOR BACULA PURPOSES, trying to back up more than a > few KBs of data over a 56kb dialup isp connection would not be practical, > I'm just trying to ilustrate that such a set up should work. > I don't know the internals of Bacula, but what comes into my mind is a possible serious throughtput problem: Since catalog database isn't running at the client end, some kind of fingerprint must obviously be transferred over the remote connection about every (even unchanged) file before system knows what needs to be backed up even on a differential or incremental backup. Depending on the protocol used, this may be a problem eg. if every fingerprint is checked one by one, and network delay (ping) is significant. So the raw transfer speed over the connection isn't necessarily the only issue to think about.
This would need some testing in real environment, or a comment by someone who knows the protocol that is used between the daemons. -- TiN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
