On Thursday 26 May 2005 02:02 pm, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Eventually I want to use Bacula to implement SAN for multiple servers.
> Right now I am in a getting-to-know-you stage with Bacula and want to
> switch one server (the one that will run the director and storage manager)
> to it.
>
> Currently we do weekly full and daily differential backup of this server to
> disk and then copy that to tape. The previous day's and previous full
> backup are stored off site. This is done with tar and shell scripts.
>
> Can I set it up initially to operate the same way in Bacula? I got the
> impression that I would have to do a full backup each day if I remove the
> tape every day. Also I was told that it is not currently possible to
> duplicate disk backup to tape. I wonder if I could tar the volume to the
> tape as a "run after" script.
Let me preface by saying that I am relatively new to Bacula (about six
months, now) so don't take my answers as certain, but I don't see any
problems at all with what you describe.
Removing the tape has nothing to do with it. You would set up to pools
for
your tapes -- one for the full backups & one for the diff's -- and configure
your jobs to use the appropriate pools.
It is not currently possible to write a backup to both to a disk file
and to
tape at the same time, but there are several ways to accomplish what you
describe. What I have done here, is to configure two jobs. A first job
performs a backup to a disk file and is then followed by a second backup job
which backs-up the file created by the first job, to tape. It's quick and
easy. The drawback is that to restore a file from tape & have to do two
restores. What you suggest would also work, perhaps better. There also is a
Bacula utility program called bcopy that might do the copy, also, but I
haven't explored that yet.
Bacula is an excellent choice for network backups. I'm backing up about
a
half-dozen servers & PC's over my LAN and many others have situations greatly
in excess of this
Cheers!
cmr
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Misty
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