That's the approach I was considering; with the scenario you've
outlined, you mention both diff and incremental jobs.
Would this mean 1 Base + Monthly Full + Weekly Diff + Daily Incremental?
Thanks!
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 10:19 -0400, Josh Fisher wrote:
>
> Consider using virtual full backups instead of normal full backups.
> Virtual full jobs take the previous base+full+diff+incremental jobs and
> merge them into a single full job. A virtual full requires no
> interaction at all with the client, so is a good match for backup over a
> slow link. You might also consider using daily incremental backups,
> rather than daily differential backups, since that would also cut down
> on FD to SD transfers.
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > I've a backup scenario I'm wanting to implement with bacula, but need
> > some advice about whether this is a correct, stable approach.
> >
> > The scenario is this: our office want an off-site backup, preferably
> > using bacula as we're used to it. Due to the slow nature of our
> > office's ADSL link, we want to do this:
> >
> > 1. We set up a box with a RAID5 array to store backed-up data
> > 2. Do one full backup of all of our data (about 1TB) before taking
> > the machine off-site
> > 3. Do monthly full backups of the data, with daily differential
> > backups (rather than incremental) to make restoration reasonably quick
> > (daily backups amount to ~50MB max)
> >
> > Having talked to someone on the #bacula IRC channel, they've suggested
> > we start with a Base backup type, so my strategy would be this:
> >
> > 1. Create a Base backup with the machine on-site
> > 2. Configure monthly Full backups based on the base, to run off-site
> > 3. Configure daily differentials as per normal
> > 4. Set up bacula-fd to encrypt all data submitted as per
> > instructions online
> > 5. Set up SSH tunnels into the office to run bacula over
> >
> > Does this sound reasonably sensible?
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