On Thursday 07 July 2005 19:30, Richard White wrote:
> >> Speaking of policies, BENW treats backup features such as type,
> >> schedule, media usage and other things as independent items. They can be
> >> changed without stopping and restarting BENW. I can create and modify
> >> policies (which establish type, media usage, repeat period, before and
> >> after tasks, etc.) and jobs (what to back up; each backup job must be
> >> associated with a policy) at will, without stopping and re-starting
> >> BENW. So, it's more "interactive". I can do the same with the hardware,
> >> detecting added drives, re-configuring partitions (slot definitions),
> >> etc.
> >>
> >> With Backula, all of these things are established in configuration
> >> files, and if any of them changes, one must edit the file and stop and
> >> re-start Bacula. Also, installation is not terribly interactive, but I'm
> >> getting used to that with Linux, so that is not really a complaint. Once
> >> Bacula is working, little would need to be changed anyway.
>
> Had a long talk with my boss today. What I will do to accommodate our needs
> with Bacula's featues is create several (four, I think) bacula-dir.conf
> files, one for each week of the month (figuring four weeks per month). Cron
> jobs will swap these files over the active one, then stop and restart
> Bacula.
I don't think this is a good idea. I would *never* (make that all caps) have
more than one bacula-dir conf file that was in production use. I can no
longer provide support, but I think you are going in the wrong direction.
> That way, all that will be necessary is to change tapes on the
> right schedule. The only thing I have to iron out now is to see whether or
> not Bacula will recognize a tape mounted by a shell command. I will test
> that this morning (provided I learn the correct syntax for mounting a
> tape).
>
> TTFN,
>
> Richard
>
> "The price of liberty is eternal viligance." Thomas Jefferson
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Kern
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