On 1 Mar 2006 at 16:42, Matthew Butt wrote: > I thought that may be the case. Bacula is a great system but every > solution I try with a disk-based backup fails for one reason or another > :( I'm sure it's perfect for tapes but I'm struggling to make it work > successfully with disks.
tapes/disks, bacula doesn't care. > All I have is about 6 backup locations and I need to do a full monthly, > diff weekly and inc daily system. I have three USB drives - a 1TB unit > for fulls, a .5TB unit for diffs and a 250MB unit for incrementals. > > It can't be this difficult! Usually it's not. I am not following this thread and have no idea what the problems are. It sounds like you want to have date-specific filenames. Many others have done this. Bacula, by design, neither renames nor deletes Volumes. That is a security issue. If you want to delete older volumes, why not create a cronjob to do that? -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
