On 11/03/2015 07:24 AM, Wesley Render wrote: > I have recently started using Bacula and have a couple of questions > regarding volume pools. I am using 7.2 version, and we have 4 Linux > servers with a total of about 100GB of data to backup. > > 1. We have two different storage devices that are in different > locations (because of bandwidth limitations). Should we be creating > different Volume Pools for each storage location?
This is not required but would be easier to manage. What is *required* is to have different MediaType for each Storage Device. Best regards, Kern > > I've tried testing using one pool, and two pools. When I use one pool > and a backup job is run it displays an error "Marking Volume > "Vol-0001" in Error in Catalog." and then it continues to run. When > I setup two different volume pools it doesn't display this error. > > 2. I've noticed that some people recommend setting up different > volume pools for Full, Differential and Incremental jobs. Is this > still a recommended strategy for Bacula with backing up to disk, and > if so when would someone use this strategy? > > The documentation here > http://blog.bacula.org/whitepapers/CommunityDiskBackup.pdf doesn't > mention this. I don't want to set things up, and then our volumes > grow too large and have to re-do everything. > > > Thank you, > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
