On Saturday 16 September 2006 12:09, Jim Peters wrote: > Are there any good tutorials or advice on how to create different schedules > for bacula? What I would like to do is schedule each client to back up each > day (mon-sun) and keep each backup until the next time that day comes > around. (Actually 3 days worth would be sufficient but possibly more > complicated to configure) This way if I have a disaster on Saturday and > Friday's data is corrupt I can still fall back a day and use Thursdays and > so on. Is this feasible with bacula? Or is there a better way to insure > against bad data in a backup? I am open to any suggestions, this is just > the way I am used to rotating manual backups to avoid problems and still > limit disk space as much as possible and seemed to be a good idea to me to > continue. Sorry to use this list for what some might think as trivial > questions but I am eager to learn bacula and implement it on my network, > and I have searched on the web on this subject but haven't found anything > that seemed to be what I was looking for. > > > > Thanks, > > Jim
Jim, You don't mention whether you have read the excellent Bacula documentation (http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Contents.html) which contains a very great deal of information on the subject of scheduling: - Getting Started with Bacula/Understanding Jobs & Schedules - A Brief Tutorial - Configuring the Director/The Schedule Resource - Configuring the Director/Example Director Configuration File - Automatic Volume Recycling - Basic Volume Management - Backup Strategies Not to mention the FAQ and Tips & Suggestions sections, and mailing list archives. Finally, the short answer to your question is 'yes', it's not only possible but easy to set up a three day rotation. About the only schedule which poses some difficulty is one which uses the 'last [Friday|Saturday|Sunday|...] of the month, but even that can be done with some fancy Perl or shell scripting. Cheers! cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 ---- "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
