I have setup and tested bacula 1.36.3 on my home office network for about two months now and everything works great. Backup and restores are humming along just fine. Now I would like to set up a permanent configuration. I have a few questions for you experts out there if you don't mind.
My setup is three computers, a server and two workstations running Solaris 10 FCS. I will spool all jobs to an 80GB disk on the server then despool to an SLR-5 4/8GB tape drive. The schedule will be as follows: Level Full on the 1st of the month Differential on 2nd and 4th Sundays Incremental on mon-sat I want to retain Full backups 6 months but I'm not sure how long I need to save Differential and Incremental backups. Should I use different pools for each machine or just three pools Full, Diff, and Incr? The latter would seem easiest. If the full backup takes 2.5 tapes won't bacula still want to append to the 3rd tape the next month which will be stored off site and not available. I thought to use the "MaximumVolumeJobs" directive for this problem but then isn't each system full backup a separate job? Any advice or pointers would be much appreciated. Thanks, Robert ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
