Hi,
I have a configuration with the following:
5 x 500GB External USB HDD in a 5 day rotation
Each HDD is automatically mounted and unmounted so that the user can
just unplug the used HDD and plug in the new one.
This works well except that in order for this to work I had to create 5
pools for each working day {Monday - Friday} and I had to create a job
per machine per pool so I ended up with 60 jobs in my Bacula conf
because I have 12 machines.
I have a Run Before Job that mounts the External HDDs to the /opt/Backup
directory and after the backup is complete the Run After Job unmounts
the HDD.
If anyone has a better way of doing this please let me or if you want to
take a look at my conf let me know
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Bacula-users] Removable HDD backup
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:39:35 -0500
Tonight, on IRC, we solved the following problem (original posted to
http://www.nabble.com/Removable-HDD-backup-to14286773.html):
> My goal is to have bacula backup onto an external HDD source that
> rotates. As in, there are three HDDs in rotation and at least one
> different HDD is put into the server every night. The other two HDDs
> are off somewhere safe. I need bacula to backup onto each HDD in such
> a way that a any of the HDDs will restore most of the files (as recent
> as it can be with the rotation schedule).
>
> Now I'm not sure if I should make bacula have more than one volume or
> if it can auto create volumes when another blank drive is present...
> any suggestions would be excellent.
After concluding Bacula can't do this without Bacula knowing what was on
each given HDD. I figured it could be done but it would be messy. It
would involve three different FileSet definitions for each client, etc...
Then the original figured we could just backup to local fixed HDD, then
copy the Bacula volumes over to the HDD. I suggested rsync instead.
This solution has the great features of always having a complete backup
set local and at least two complete copies of the Volumes offsite at all
times.
We all thought we should post this for the archives. A very simple
solution. Suggestions welcome though.
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