1) No 2) Yes
Cheers, Eric On 5/11/06, Hargreaves, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi there, I've not installed Bacula as at the moment I use rsnapshot to maintain backups of data between my two Linux hard disks and a few home clients. I'm thinking of switching but have a few questions that the FAQ doesn't appear to cover. 1) Functionality like Synthetic backups. i.e. imagine I have 300GB of data and my backup will be going on a 400GB hard disk. My first backup is a full, then after that point there will be incrementals. However - lets say weekly - I want to ensure that my full image is current - but don't want to delete the existing full backup until I'm 100% sure that the next one has succeeded. Netbackup calls these things synthetic backups since it reconstructs the full backup and injects the incrementals into it. Does bacula have this? 2) Backup validation. I'm paranoid about data getting accidently corrupted. Having seen some of the interesting things that disk drives can do - such as high fly writes, not write but ack the client, etc - I like to verify everything I back up. Is there a way of telling Bacula to check an existing backup to ensure that the backup hasn't got corrupted. I guess I could md5sum the backup pool file? or is there a built in way of checking that the pool files aren't getting corrupt? Thanks Paul
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