Greetings, I have a question that may be simple for some, but not so for me.
I am in the process of beta testing bacula for our environment and I'm trying to get my brain around volume management for our requirements. I plan on going disk to disk to tape, in a ~3 month cycle. I back up about 300Gb of data in fulls and incrementals a month. What I'd like to do is have 2 sets of backups (full and incrementals) on disk. one set from the month prior, and one working set of the current month. when its time for the 3rd month's full, I'd like to migrate the prior month off to tape, and reuse its disk volumes. (I have migration running as it should) ;) I've read the volume management/pool/scheduling sections in the docs about 12 times each, and I can see about 4 or 5 different ways to accomplish this. ultimately, I'd like it to be all automatic with the exception of changing tapes in the magazine. I'd probably use full backups on the first friday of the month, and incrementals for the rest of the month. ##(musing on) I see a couple of things that are throwing me. I think I can use the "use duration" directive for the full backup jobs as they will only take a day or so to run. but what about the Incremental pool? each disk volume will be 3GB but they will each have a different "start" time so I won't be able to use the "Use duration" for them. so I'm looking for some advice on pruning/recycling disk volumes in this situation. I think I'll need to have at least 2 "sets" of Pools and for the migration. I think I can use a sql query selection type to pull the different sets of pools in turn. or would it be better to have 2 different migration jobs that took turns. ##(musing off) any thoughts on this? I have a good idea of what I want this cake to taste like when its fully baked, but I'm not sure what the best recipe will be. I'm not looking for someone to write the conf files for me, but I'm looking for someone to point me a the right direction. Thoughs? ideas? Many Thanks Fred -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
