Darien Hager wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2007, at 9:02 AM, Brian Debelius wrote:
>
>> I am just curious as to what others are doing with backing up multiple
>> servers to disk. Do you use a pool for each server?; or do you use
>> just
>> one pool for all?
>>
>> Currently I am using multiple pools, the create individual back up
>> files
>> labeled (for example) Server1_full-001, Server2_full-001,
>> Server3_full-001.
>>
>> But I was thinking about just appending all jobs to the same pool.
>>
>
> Take whatever I say with a grain of salt, since this something still
> in the process of being rolled out and tested. Hopefully it may help
> with ideas, though. One basic theme is that since I'm not backing up
> to tape or some other sequential-access device, I avoid having more
> than one volume per disk file.
>
> I have Bacula set up to back up everything to disk on the backup
> server, using a pool for each level type (full/diff/incr). The pools
> mainly function to auto-label the jobs and to set retention periods.
> JobDefs set override pools for each backup level, and the Schedule
> sets the preferred backup level in each Run= line.
>
> Since I'm backing up to files, the volume names have a very direct
> association with the filenames, so I want them to be pretty
> descriptive. Example label format:
> Label Format = "${Year}${Month:p/2/0/r}${Day:p/2/0/r}_FULL_$
> {JobId}_${Client}"
> The level "FULL" is hardcoded because the variable for job level is
> sometimes set weirdly when you run the job manually from the console.
> The JobID is in there so that each label is unique in order to
> prevent the need for constant manual labeling when combined with
> "Maximum Volume Jobs = 1".
>
> Since I know from scheduling about how often each kind of backup will
> be done, I can set retentions with that in mind. E.g. Monthly full
> backups, I want at least two in the past, I can set retention to 2.5
> or 3 months.
>
> Finally, the storage daemon is set to split volumes into files which
> will fit on CD-R's using the "Maximum File Size" directive, although
> maybe it should be DVD-length. One thing I haven't tried, but would
> be neat--if I could set volume names in such a way that they would
> create a directory tree using the File device... I've just settled
> for easy-to-parse filenames.
>
>
> --
> --Darien A. Hager
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
So, Then I suppose that your volumes are not recycled? Does Bacula
automatically delete the expired volumes during a prune?
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