-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Henrik Johansen wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: > Henrik Johansen wrote: >>>> Hi list, >>>> >>>> I have some questions regarding disk based backups that I hope some >>>> of you >>>> could answer for me. I am currently managing 100+ UNIX systems that >>>> are backed up using a variety of scripts which I really would like to >>>> replace with something solid, flexible, scalable and easy to manage. >>>> >>>> Bacula seems to be heavily centralized around tape and my head hurts >>>> a bit from trying to figure out how to do efficient disk baseed >>>> backup for 100+ clients without shooting myself in the foot :) > > Why do you conclude it is highly centralized around tape? > >> I am not concluding anything? When going through the manual I found that >> a lot was written about tape and less about disk, hence it *seems* more >> about tape then disk - at least to me.
Consider that Bacula backs up to Volumes. Volumes belong to Pools. To Bacula, Volumes can be tapes or disk (and other media). There is no difference to Bacula. The format is the same. The scheduling, retention, etc, all the same. I think more is written about tape because those particular sections of the documentation was written before disk backup was implemented. I find myself talking and writing about tapes more than disks. This may be because I backup to tape more than to disk. These are unproven theories. - -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkn229UACgkQCgsXFM/7nTzlgACg5fQsbj4pNZIiybEaH9GmYurj jwcAn0gvL8FBlf2o0nkAtMLW+Axq8RW5 =ulzY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
