On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I want to backup a larger amount of data (approx. 800GB and a total of 2
> million files) with
> a library of Ultrium-3 tapes.
That, in essence, is why I first installed bacula - to backup roughly 2TB
of data just once (my file count is *significantly* higher than yours,
though - on the order of 200 million files across 10s of thousands of
directories).
> After a succesful backup, the data will be removed from the disk storage and
> the tapes will
> be taken offsite. Probably, it will be necessary to restore certain files
> from the backup, but
> this case should not occur.
> In other words, I want to backup a file set only once (perhaps do a complete
> restore and
> compare the files), store the catalog offsite, remove the used tapes from the
> library and
> wipe the disk storage and perhaps clear the catalog.
If, by 'clear the catalog', you mean 'erase the bacula database entries',
I would not recommend doing that. Otherwise, this should be dead simple.
What I did was created a set of jobs in my bacula-dir.conf file (I had
already discovered that backing up the entire fileset takes longer than
bacula will allow for a single backup job). Each of these jobs were
defined individually, although I probably could have created a JobDef
entry for most of this. I did *not* use the DefaultJob JobDef, as that has
a weekly schedule. My jobs were all variations on the following:
Job {
Name = "BackupFileStore_pt1"
Type = Backup
Level = Full
FileSet="xRaid1_pt1"
Storage = Ultrium
Client = srv01-fd
Messages = Standard
Pool = Default
Priority = 5
}
I then dumped to a text file a listing of all directories on the filestore
I was backing up. I broke that list into 4 pieces, and used those pieces
to generate FileSets in my bacula-dir.conf:
FileSet {
Name = "xRaid1_pt1"
Include {
Options {
signature = MD5
}
File = "</data/staging/xRaid1/part1"
}
}
Then, all I had to do was put in a tape, run bconsole, and start the job.
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