Hi Radoslaw, Josh, Thanks for your recommendations, much appreciated.
The way I am currently trying out Bacula Solution is as explained below: 1. Bacula Server which hosts bacula-dir, bacula-sd, PostgreSQL 2. FreeBSD based Filer with ZFS disk storage to hold Bacula volume files. This disk storage is NFS exported and mounted on the Bacula Server. ( This Filer holds only the Bacula volume files, nothing else) 1. A dedicated point to point Gigabit network between the Bacula server and the Filer 2. There is a separate LAN between Bacula clients and the Bacula server 3. I will try shifting the bacula-sd from Bacula server to Filer as suggested by both of you. -Yateen Bhagat From: Radosław Korzeniewski <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2020 5:57 PM To: Josh Fisher <[email protected]> Cc: Shaligram Bhagat, Yateen (Nokia - IN/Bangalore) <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with concurrent jobs in disk based auto changer Hello, czw., 9 kwi 2020 o 13:20 Josh Fisher <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> napisał(a): On 4/9/2020 4:09 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, wt., 7 kwi 2020 o 14:40 Josh Fisher <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> napisał(a): On 4/7/2020 7:20 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, wt., 7 kwi 2020 o 09:38 Shaligram Bhagat, Yateen (Nokia - IN/Bangalore) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> napisał(a): Hi, The issue is resolved after I increased the number of devices under a filechanger. Nevertheless, the suggestion to keep the file server and the bacula-sd on the same host is good one. If you are using backup to tape then yes, running a dedicated bacula-sd on file server is a good recommendation. Also true if the file server in question is only for the backup volumes. I assume a "file server" mentioned above is not a server which only holds backup volume files but a common sense of this term like storing user profiles, documents, production files, photos, movies, etc. If the "file server" holds only backup volumes, then I personally do not name it "file server" but a backup server. Exporting backup volume files used by SD without a proper operational synchronization is not a good idea. It does not harm your backups when exported as read-only, but full-access... OK. Backup server, then. Great! The point was to move SD to the host where the backup volume files are stored to prevent doubling the network traffic required. Yes, it is a very recommended way to optimize backup paths. If data is stored on that host as well, then care must be taken to ensure that the storage that the volume files are written to is isolated, physically and logically, from the storage that data is written to. Absolutely. Thanks for clarification then. best regards -- Radosław Korzeniewski [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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