On 10/16/22 12:21, Marco Gaiarin wrote:
Mandi! Radosław Korzeniewski
In chel di` si favelave...
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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 the client is on the other end of a 10Mbps link, then the options are
to make the initial full backup over the slow link or temporarily move
the client to the site where Dir/SD runs just to make the initial full
backup. Another more convoluted way that doesn't involve moving the
client machine or taking it offline for a long time is:
Clone the client's data disks, making sure that the filesystem UUIDs are
identical, and take them to the server's site
Create a basic VM and install bacula client, using the same client
config as the real client
Attach the cloned disks to the VM, making sure that they are mounted at
the same mountpoints as the real client.
Alter the Director's config for the client to reflect the VM's address
Run a full backup of the VM
Change the Director's config for the client back to the client's real
address
The first incremental backup will be larger than normal because the
basic VM's root partition isn't a clone of the real client, but I assume
that most of the data is on the cloned disk partitions.
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