Mandi! Radosław Korzeniewski In chel di` si favelave... >> Ah, simply i put on tape the 'alpha.0' directory, the 'most recent backup' >> in rsnapshot lingo. >> It is marely a folder with all the file within. > So you are using a tar command for that, right? Then how do you restore data > directly from tape?
No, sorry. 'rsnapshot' is a simple frontend to rsync, that, barely, create a folder tree using levels by default at alpha, beta, gamma, ... rsnapshot use hard links to reduce space on disk. So, if i need to put the backup on some media (eg, tape) i can simpy put 'alpha.0', the most recent backup at the most lower level, instead of the original content. I hope i was clear now. > Virtual Full simply creates the next media and copies all required data from > source media (your 3 current media in the pool). > During copy Bacula skip all files marked as deleted in all Incremental or > Differential backups. This procedure makes new (Virtual) Full backup > indistinguishable from backup performed on the backup client. I thing i've missed a point here... i've defined as 'Next Pool' the pool itself, and i think it is not permitted: i need a pool for incremenetal, and a pool for the full. Right? > I do not understand your requirements. What is an "initial backup" you want to > make? Are you referring to the first Full backup which has to be executed on > the client? Exactly. VirtualFull can be (at least for me) a very good way to backup 6TB data on a 10 Mbit/s link, because data vary low. But still i need a way to do the first full... > If yes and your network transfer speed is a main limiting factor in this case > then the best solution is to make a small first "Full" and gradually add data > to backup with incremental or differential levels. You mean 'gradually' poking with filesets (eg, today dir 'a', tomorrow dir 'b') or i can define a job that transfer at most 1GB (for example) and simply do a (very!) long sequence of incremental job? Thanks. _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
