On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Michael Brennen might have said: > > For several years I have been doing my own D2D2T scheme based on > rsync/tar. I have a large capacity disk system in the office that > archives systems with rsync across a T1 to the colo cabinets. That is > where rsync really is useful, as its differential transfer is so > efficient. I am maintaining give or take 150 GB over the T1, with > seldom more than 2-3 hours of transfer time in the middle of the > night. From the disk I was then spinning things off to tape in my own > scheme. > > For the unix systems I think I will continue to use the rsync method > to first stage the archive to disk, then using Bacula to maintain a > standard set of full/incremental archives of the disk snapshots. > With this system the transfer over the T1 is always a differential > transfer, but I can also maintain a hierarchical tape archive set with > Bacula. > > I really like that Bacula has a windows client that can archive > ownership and ACLs. However, to archive the windows systems with > Bacula means that I must now do the full/incremental archives within > the native Bacula scheme of things, which will require that full > archives happen periodically over the T1 (or 6 mbit DSL, or whatever > relatively much-slower-than-LAN link I pull in to the office). > > My question is this: will Bacula job migration allow the sort of split > use that I am doing for the unix systems? That is, will it be > possible, once a full transfer is done, to always do an incremental > archive D2D across the T1, then a hierarchical full/incremental D2T > scheme on the office LAN? > > Said another way, I do not see that a job can mount a Bacula disk > archive as a client file set to then spin to tape. > > Again, thanks for any insight that someone can give.
What about a linux or aix box mounting a cifs filesystem, then using rsync from that filesystem to your local disk store? Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
