Phil, Thanks very much! I will try it out asap.
All best, Olle On Oct 2, 2010, at 1:16 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 10/01/10 18:51, Olle Romo wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I'm a newbie here and I'd just like to get someone's thoughts on >> this - >> >> I want to run several rotating backups sets of the same files; one >> set >> of tapes at home and one set at work and then rotate and keep >> incrementing on both. >> >> What I'm doing (and it's working ok) is I use several virtual >> machines >> for Bacula dir (Debian on a Mac Pro in Parallels). This way I can >> have >> multiple sets of tapes backing up the same set of files. >> >> I suspect there is a more elegant way to accomplish this from a >> single >> Bacula dir...? > > Olle, > If I understand CORRECTLY what you're trying to do, there's a much > simpler solution. Just create two (or more) Jobs per Client, each set > of Jobs using its own Pool. So, for example, let's say you have > Pool1, > Pool2, Pool3, and Pool4; Client1 has Jobs Client1-Job1, Client1-Job2, > Client1-Job3, and Client1-Job4, all sharing the same Fileset. Your > Schedule would be written so that in week 1, it runs all the *-Job1 > jobs, in week 2 it runs all the *-Job2 jobs, etc, etc. > > This will allow one Director to retain multiple completely independent > sets of backup media and backup histories for each Client, while still > (I believe) allowing deduplication or replicated File records in the > Catalog, so your Catalog would be significantly smaller than if you > had > four separate Catalogs on four "virtual" Directors. > > > -- > Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 > ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org > Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater > It's not the years, it's the mileage. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
