Hi,
for the last week I have checked out bacula, since I need to replace the mt-scripts here with a better solution.
I have done several testing and reading in the documentation and what I have found out is quite promising. But I have some open questions. Maybe someone here with more experience in bacula can answer some of that.
The general situation is a lot of data, distributed on several Linux/Windows-hosts, are to be backuped on tape.
For now I have a seagate tape-drive with 20GB capacity, which tapes has to be changed manually.
Some of the backupjobs are bigger than that. It there a way to convince bacula to deal with this properly?
I would expect something like:
Starting a fulldump on the first tape until it is full, and then start with a incremental backup of the contents of the first tape followed by full backup of the remainung data until everything is on the tapes.
I have tested to do a fullbackup over several tapes and then starting incremental, which is quite unsatifiing since it takes up to 6 hours to write one tape and I can run just one tape per day. So there is a lot of change in the data in the time the backup runs. Spooling the data to a holding-disc helps me to keep the tape-contents consistent, but it doesn't solve the problem at all.
The second major question is how to bundle jobs. I also have several small jobs. I could schedule everyone of them to a single time, but this would cause the tape-drive to be started several times with a lot of rewinding. I would like to avoid this by scheduling several jobs as a bundle. Is that possible?
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Daniel Bloemer -- Daniel Bloemer - BusinessCoDe GmbH Systemadministration and Support Phone: +49 (0)228 / 28925-31 http://www.business-code.de
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