hi all, first of all this is my 3rd day with bacula. I think it is a nice backup software, though some stuff is really hard to get right at first. (I used to do ssh + rsync backups).
i have different nodes: node1, node2, .. i am using bacula 1.38 (binary dist) All of those should get backed to a file - daily - weekly - monthly so actually i have a "logical" job, which says backup all the nodes. (I use jobdefs for the defaults, and for every client a single job). the scheduler overwrites the pool then. in order to change as little as possible when i add another machine, i simply want everything to go into 3 pools (daily, weekly, monthly). I have auto labeling and recyling enabled. using "use volume once" does not work since every client is done by a single job (am i right?). so i use the following construct Maximum Use Duration = 23 h. This is beacuse no other "logical" job (of backing up every nodes) runs within 23h. What are your experiences w/ restoring, if all the information is stored on one giant volume (is there a problem w/ the catalog)? What i would really like is to perform dvd backup for the daily backups (since they should be small enough). Has anybody used something like this working? I am using a work-around to not directly write to dvd, but use the following two restrictions on the daily pool: Maximum use DUration = 23 h Maximum volume bytes = 4GB This should allow me (in theory - i have not tried it out) to later (after backup) write the individual files to dvd easily. Every file to one dvd - since they should be no bigger than 4GB. Does this really work when restoring (using bscan i guess should be no problem). Has anybody used something like the above? Thanks in advance ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
