Peter Sjoberg wrote: > I been using bacula to backup my environment to tape for a while but I > started to run into problems with size and time and considering changing > the way I do backup. > I started to read up a little but it's so many options I decided to ask > the exports for suggestions. > > At the moment I'm backing up everything to DLT 40/80 tapes and despite > excluding a lot it takes almost 24h to complete a full backup. > I do a full backup once/month and take the tapes offsite for offsite > storage. Daily and weekly is stored onsite. > Easiest might be to get a bigger/faster tapedrive but the budget for > that isn't there so I'm thinking of another solution in using disks > similar to using tapes. (1T external disk $200-250CAD, equal in tapes - > way more + the tapedrive) > > What I'm thinking of is that > I get 3 external disks (USB or eSata, size to be determent) > I install latest version of Bacula > I hook up 2 of the disks to the server > Daily and Differential keeps on going to tape > Full goes to the first disk. Once the first disk is filled up it moves > to the next disk. > When the 1st disk is filled up I remove that off site and put in the 3rd > disk. > Once the 2nd disk is filled it moves on to the 3rd disk (which is now > connected), I take the 2nd offsite and take back the 1st disk. > And so on. > In other words, I use the disks almost as if they where tapes. > > Is this possible to get working? > I did read about backup to multiple disks and symlinks and stuff but > since I changing the disk I don't know if that's the way to go. > Can I somehow fake a autochanger function (autochanger with two slots) > and run some script whenever it change disk? > Any other suggestions where I can circulate disks in stead of tapes? > > As I remember it it was some issues moving between tapes and disks > (solved with Migrate?) so maybe I could get another disk just for > inc/diff backups to make it a little simpler.
I suggest this option: - Backup up to local HDD (preferably on at least RAID-1) - use rsync to mirror those local HDD to external HDD This is much easier to setup from a Bacula point of view. Does that help? -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
