Please forgive me if something like my situation is covered in a previous post or in the instructions somewhere. I found one similar question that no one had answered... here's hoping someone does.
I'd like some advice as to how to set my filesets up. We have three machines backing up presently: one is the bacula director/storage host (approx 100G over 12 partitions) and two windows hosts (probably around 20G each). We will be backing up to disk (more about that later) Would it be advantageous to configure a fileset for each partition on the linux machine? I would think this would speed up restores as each tape image would be shorter. However this complicates the scheduling because I'd need a seperate job for each fileset, correct? Is there be any way to group jobs, sort of aliasing them together under one name, like per machine? The other bit of advice I'd like to ask for has to do with pool/volume setup. We want full backups (monthly) to go directly onto a USB-attached hard drive, along with the catalog for that backup for offsite storage. Daily incrementals will be written onto a directory on the linux machine, along with weekly differentials. The differentials may also be written out to cd/dvd (manualy or automaticaly after spooling, depending on how long it takes me to sort the rest of this out, not so important for the question) The full backups would be rotated among N (N = 4 currently) USB disks which would be recycled after N months to provide N months of weekly backup + daily granularity depending on how often the incrementals are pruned. Whew. I can't determine if I need one pool for full backups, or N pools for full backups, or N * hosts pools for full backups, or if it really matters. I could just mount a new disk each week, but then I have to keep track of which one I'm using manualy, so mistakes will be made. If bacula were writing to a real tape device, I would think to use N full pools (one for each set of tapes to rotate on), but is there any way to have bacula know which USB disk I have plugged in, or which I should use for a restore? Can bacula only track by 'tape' label for disk storage? Also, can I have different pools point at different 'devices' or locations on disk, so that fulls go onto the usb disk and diff and incrs go onto some other filesystem? Or maybe I'm thinking about this all wrong and someone can set me straight. All my configs are available at www.nmt.edu/~dcatanac/bacula/ Thanks a bunch in advance. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
