On Monday 2019-04-15 23:24:10 Marcio Demetrio Bacci wrote: > I have some doubts about Bacula, however I did not find answers on the > Internet or in the books for the following doubts: > > 1. Is there any problem in using Bacula virtualized? (I didn't find > anything saying otherwise)
No. I have several setups on vmware and kvm. Even few on raspberry-pi and they are all running for at least 5 years, some of them 10+. > 2. Is there any restriction on mounting the Bacula VM on a DRBD volume > in the hypervisor. In this VM I will implement ZFS deduplication for my > backups? No. As long as Bacula can use the file system as usual, Bacula will not be affected by the fact you are using DRBD as it just provides another block device you are using for your file system of choice (in your case ZFS). But you might want to read some articles on the DRBD + ZFS setup if you haven't done that already. E.g. http://cedric.dufour.name/blah/IT/ZfsOnTopOfDrbd.html > 3. Is there any limitation on the size of Backups with Bacula Community > version? (I did not find information about any limitations) No. Bacula Systems is kind enough to not impose such limits on Bacula Community version and it was never a case. > 4. Having a few jobs with 300 GB or more, though I set up my volumes on > Bacula with 100 GB, so would you recommend increasing the size of the > volumes to 200 GB or more? I prefer to keep them at 10G so that I can maintain them easier in case I need to deal with the volumes manually. > 5. Currently the OS and Backup disks are on the same DRBD volume, so > would it be better to put the OS disk out of the DRBD volume? (the VM > has frequently crashing what makes me think that excessive writing on > the disk may be impacting the OS) Generally, it is good idea to keep OS and the data separated. That way you can optimize its devices differently performance and security-wise. But if your DRBD is the only thing that gives you redundancy then it's better to keep them both on the DRBD. However, the crashing VM is really bad problem and is not something that should be ignored or considered as nuisance. You should attend to solving this problem before proceeding with improvements of other systems that rely on that VM and its stability. Good luck. Regards! -- Josip Deanovic _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
