> I am interested in using bacula to backup several desktop systems > (Windows XP and Snow Leopard). We have stopped using Retrospect because > of its general unreliability and slow speed, and I am trying to > determine if bacula will meet our needs. > > With Retrospect, we backed up to hard drives and when a drive filled up, > Retrospect would ask us to add a new drive to its "media set". We were > then able to unmount and eject the old drive, then place it on a shelf > in an anti-static bag. > > I have set up a system running Ubuntu, and it has four eSATA plugs. From > what I have read so far, I believe that bacula is able to write the > backups into files on a single hard drive, but I'm confused about what > happens when the drive fills up.
Bad things. You want to avoid that situation.. First of all you want to make volumes such that a single hard drive contains many 10 to 100 volumes. This will aide in recycling since bacula recycles all or none. > I do not want to use RAID or anything > LVM-related, since that would prevent us from being able to take old > volumes offline. Is there a way to make bacula work in a similar way to > how Retrospect did (minus the unreliability and slowness:)? > Not out of the box. But it can be done. I suggest you take a look at the bacula-vchanger http://sourceforge.net/projects/vchanger/ and make each removable disk a virtual autochanger magazine with a fixed amount of fixed sized volumes. Either way to get this to work you will have to learn bacula and customize it to what you want to do. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
