Hi,
I was hoping someone had some expert advice regarding a possible Bacula
setup, in a fairly large scale - I would say Enterprise.
I have around 250+ clients with an average of 20GB per client I need to
backup. Some clients, such as mailservers, have ~110GB data in small files
and some webservers have ~30GB of various types of files, not a lot of
changes in these though.
I have to setup an optimal backup solution, with the goal to have a 7 day
retention period.
I have a 10TB storage device (Raw File Storage) (ignore the inconsistency
between the number of clients and the size of the storage), and have tried
several ways to optimize the Schedule to prune volumes effectively, but
I'm not that confident it's optimal.
Basically I am currently using the following settings:
Pool {
Name = Default
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 14 days
Label Format = File-
Maximum Volume Bytes = 10g
# Volume Use Duration = 24h
# Maximum Volume Jobs = 2
# Use Volume Once = yes
}
Schedule {
Name = "WeeklyCycle"
Run = Full 1st sun at 23:05
Run = Differential 2nd-5th sun at 23:05
Run = Incremental mon-sat at 23:05
}
Client {
Name = backupserver-fd
Address = backupserver
FDPort = 9102
Catalog = MyCatalog
Password = [MASKED]
File Retention = 7 days
Job Retention = 1 months
AutoPrune = yes
}
My primary concern is after 7 days, I will still have more data stored
than I actually need to recover files 7 days back.
I am also worried about running too many FULL backups, because it takes a
long time to backup 110+GB in ~3 mill. files, sometimes more than 24
hours, which leads Bacula to spin a full backup twice (since it tries to
run an incremental without it being able to see a full backup is in
progress, bug?).
Lots of text, hope someone will share their advice.
Thanks a lot.
--
Tom Sommer
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