Hi, 2007/3/5, Dominik Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > we got a new server in our company. It run several services on several > XEN virtual machines (e.g. mail, webserver, yp). I want to know if it is > better to run bacula in its own XEN or directly on the hostsystem? This > server has enough hardware ressource for both.
The Xen documentation is quite clear about running services in dom0: do NOT do it. There are reasons for that statement, mostly reasons based on bad experiences following bad choices or as we say "dicke finger und keine backups". Xen allows you to export the fc- or scsi hba the tape is connected to to the domU that will use it. >From a disaster recovery point of view it is not desirable to have the backups in a domU, unless you're able to provision that domU to a ready state without relying on backups, i.e. bring up the domU on a 2nd dom0 if the dom0 #1 is broken. If You can ensure that and have some xen experience, you could also just run a bacula-sd in dom0, that's not so much pain and/or risk. I've done this for some time after settling my toyground into one larger box - but that was at home, not for a company people rely on. my main advice would be a different, non-virtualized host for the backups. Good luck, Florian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
