[CentOS] OT: bacula question

Tue Nov 10 19:14:56 UTC 2015
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>
>> Question, for those that use/have used bacula: I've been setting up
>> backups for one team, the server on CentOS 6, but they're on
>> Windows. If we install the director on Windows, is it possible for
>> the users to restore files from the server to their own machine?
>
> Please check that I'm getting this right.
>
> * You've got the director running on a CentOS machine.
> * You've got file daemons running on Windows machines.
> * You want to restore files from CentOS director to Windows clients.
>
> Is that right? If so, you can restore from the director on CentOS to
> the file daemons on Windows without further ado.

'Friad not. My users are saying they'd like the ability, from their
Windows machines, to restore, without having to ask me to do something
from the server. And they want to be able to chose the files to
restore....

     mark