On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 10:50:49PM -0800, ixlo...@sent.at wrote: > hello > > i've set up Bacula to back up multiple machines on my LAN. > > i've created a strategy/rotation of full, differential & incremental > backups. > > with all backups going only to hard drive volumes on a single NAS > device, so far so good. > > i want to put in place some "backup of the backup". > > i'm considering two options: > > (1) make a filesytem copy of a Bacula storage Volume from the NAS to > another device > > or > > (2) set up a 2nd rotation of backups to the 2nd device > > iiuc, both get the job done. > > which of the 2 approaches are recommended? >
I've recently implemented a new "offline backup" methodology where we just copy the most recent full online backups for all clients to tape, using a bacula job. The downside is you won't be able to use file-level restore on those volumes, but with bls, bscan and bextract there are quite a few tools available to "simulate" file level restores once you have restored the disk backup volumes from tape (1 file per job, separate full / incr. pools for every client). The upside is that your catalog probably won't blow up like ours did once we started running 100s of copy jobs. All the best, Uwe -- NIONEX --- Ein Unternehmen der Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
