Dear all,
I recently came to use Bacula and am amazed by all the things
that can be done with this fine piece of software.
Almost too much, indeed, as I am a little bit lost and
would like to have some expert's point of view on my setup !
As a background for my question, let me present my backup server :
- Sun 220R running Solaris 10
- Sun D1000 disk bay with twelve 18-Gb disks
- Exabyte Mammoth2 tape drive (60Gb capacity)
- Exabyte 215 changer (15 tapes capacity)
I'd like to backup a few clients, but for the sake of simpleness,
let's say I have two :
- one is our file servers (~110 Gb total data volume, 100 Mb is changing
every day)
- the other is the email server (10 Gb data, 15 Mb per day on average)
I've spent the best part of the last few weeks trying to
install, compile, and configure Bacula, and now everything
is working fine, as far as the basic tests I've tried can tell !
Now, it's time to setup Bacula for my real needs and to put
it in production. Here comes my stomping stone :
The "aggressive" backup schedule I need is as follow:
- Full of every servers every sunday (done on a tape)
- Incremental of every servers every night (done on a tape)
- Differential of every servers every *hour* (yes!) (done on disks)
Size should not be an issue, as I have a set of more than 100 blank
tapes. I'd like to recycle the data on the tapes after one year
and on the disks after ten days.
I have a few questions :
1) can Bacula do one part of the backup on tape (lev.0 + lev.1)
and the other on disks (lev.2) or do all the jobs need to be run on the
same storage device ?
2) is it possible to have all clients backuped inside the same "job" ?
I have the same need for backup on all clients.
3) I'd like to treat my 12 disks as a "pool". These disks are no longer
under maintenance, and if any one of them fails one day, it'd like to
remove it and tell Bacula "this volume doesn't belong to the disk pool
any longer". Can this be done ?
Thanks for your time !
Regards,
--
Samuel Olampi - CGS Risques Sophia
Ecole des Mines de Paris - BP 207
F-06904 Sophia Antipolis - FRANCE
Phone number : (+33)493.957.477
Fax number : (+33)493.654.304
E-Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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