Hi people: I'm trying to find the best combination of Full, Differential and Incremental backups to save disk space, I'd like someone can help me with some ideas:
Our policy says that we must keep user data of last 3 months, so according to that I planned to do something like this: Client { ... ... File Retention = 90 days Job Retention = 90 days } Pool { Name = Default Type = Backup Recycle = yes Autoprune = yes Label Format = Vol- Volume Use Duration = 10 days Volume Retention = 90 days } Schedule { Name = Daily Run Level=Incremental Pool=Default } As you see I only run Incremental backups letting Bacula autodetect the first as a Full Backup. So after 90 days I would have a Full Backup and 89 Incremental Backups (or so), but past ten days my first Volume (the one that includes my first and unique Full Backup) would be marked as Purged and consequently Recycled. So I would lose the posibility to restore my hole data within those 90 days because with many incremental but no full backup I can't do anything, right? If I pretend not to lose my Full Backups every time a Volume gets recycled I think should be necessary to run a Full Backup every ten days, right? But I think that doing so would consume too much disk space, or not? - Is this the best way (space economically) to keep 90 days of recoverable data? - Do I need to use different Pools for Incremental and Full Backups? - What are your best backup strategies to keep data available to be restored? Please consider that I'm using File disk Backups. I hope someone can point me to better ideas than mine Thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users