Hi Bob > As another pointed out... you'll want to get a higher capacity library > in place before you hit 6TB of data of course. Depending on the nature > of what's on that NAS you may find that you have too much data long > before you hit 6TB too (i.e. if the data is already compressed a lot > you'll not be able to compress it further on the tape drive).
Your are right. Lots of data is compressed at the nas system because most files are videos in mpeg format. At this time the size of data is nearly 2TB. I configure the nas system in several partiton: 3 about ~2TB, 1 about ~500GB and ~10GB with the system partitons. > > I'm big on LTO style hardware for a variety of reasons, but that's not > what you asked about... > > But in the mean time... I never mess around with differentials. I only > do incrementals and fulls. You may find that if you do full backups > less often than once per week the inconvenience will be quite a bit > lower. Plan on keeping the backups more than a month... Unfortunately, > bacula doesn't do 21 day rotation cycles like other systems so you're > stuck with either manual intervention or once per month fulls... If you > go that route plan on having at least 2 full backups so you're never run > into a situation where a tape used in a full backup breaks and you lose > everything... In fact i would like to hold the backup data for more than one month for archiving. It should be no problem for manual intervention, but i do not know how bacula communicate this. Sends bacula a mail message with the notice that one or more tape have to change? Well, if it is better i will be plan only full und incremental backups. Stefan -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
