On 2016-11-16 06:12 AM, Paul J R wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a data set that i'd like to backup thats large and not very > important. Backing it up is a "nice to have" not a must have. I've been > trying to find a way to back it up to disk that isnt disruptive to the > normal flow of backups, but everytime i end up in a place where bacula > wants to do a full backup of it (which takes too long and ends up > getting cancelled). > > Currently im using 7.0.5 and something i noticed in the 7.4 tree is the > ability to resume stopped jobs but from my brief testing of it I wont > quite do what Im after either. Ideally what im trying to achieve is give > bacula 1 hour a night to backup as much as it can and then stop. Setting > a time limit doesnt work cause the backup just gets cancelled and it > forgets everything its backed up already and tries to start from scratch > again the following night. > > VirtualFull doesnt really do what im after either and i've also tried > populating the database directly in a way that makes it think its > already got a full backup (varying results, and none of them fantastic). > A full backup of the dataset in one hit isnt realistically achievable. > > Before I give up though, im curious if anyone has tried doing similar > and what results/ideas they had that might work? > > Thanks in advance!
While there's many things that Bacula does very well, what you are describing is not one of them. Check out CrashPlan - you can set it up to back up to another machine for free. I use it in exactly this sort of manner to back up a few laptops to a server. It's particularly good at handling intermittent connectivity, changing files, things like that. You don't get the same amount of control over expiry, it doesn't give you any real way to send data out to tape (you'd have to use Bacula or something to do a full on the entire directory it is using after stopping CrashPlan or using filesystem snapshots) but it will handle multiple machines, multiple versions of backed up files and can be scheduled the way you want. Another tool that works well for stuff like this (plus doing a whole lot of other things) is OwnCloud. I use that on my main personal laptop now. The files deposited on the OwnCloud server are a lot easier to back up with tools like Bacula as well, though there is still a separate database involved that you have to worry about. That reminds me to go check and make sure I've included OwnCloud's DB in my Bacula jobs! Bryn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
