Re: [Bacula-users] Starting again with my bacula config...

2014-06-08 Thread Steven Haigh
On 09/06/14 01:55, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 06/08/14 06:09, Steven Haigh wrote: >> I do believe this is one of the biggest shortcomings of Bacula... >> The fact it is job based vs file based removes a lot of >> flexibility. > >> If I understand things properly, for a VirtualFull will: 1) Requir

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy SD to SD with data encryption

2014-06-08 Thread Josip Deanovic
Quoting message written on Saturday 2014-06-07 13:22:33: > Hello Josip, > > At the current time, only File daemon does encryption. So the answer to > your question is: no we cannot do data encryption on SD->SD transfers. > It could be an interesting project for someone though (not me, because > I

Re: [Bacula-users] Starting again with my bacula config...

2014-06-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/08/14 06:09, Steven Haigh wrote: > I do believe this is one of the biggest shortcomings of Bacula... > The fact it is job based vs file based removes a lot of > flexibility. > > If I understand things properly, for a VirtualFull will: 1) Requi

Re: [Bacula-users] Starting again with my bacula config...

2014-06-08 Thread Steven Haigh
I do believe this is one of the biggest shortcomings of Bacula... The fact it is job based vs file based removes a lot of flexibility. If I understand things properly, for a VirtualFull will: 1) Require all volumes as stated below, and; 2) Require enough space to write the entire backup out again;

Re: [Bacula-users] Starting again with my bacula config...

2014-06-08 Thread Kern Sibbald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, To do a VirtualFull you do need to have all backups since the last Full or VirtualFull available. I recommend against production use of SQLite, unless you have less than 10 machines. Normally there is no reason why an instance of MySQL/Postg

Re: [Bacula-users] Starting again with my bacula config...

2014-06-08 Thread Steven Haigh
Hi all, The one thing I can see tripping me up is that from what I understand, for a VirtualFull I will need access to ALL jobs since the last VirtualFull. In the case of a removable eSATA drive that won't be online all the time, I can't guarantee that access will be available to that drive. At t

Re: [Bacula-users] Starting again with my bacula config...

2014-06-08 Thread Kern Sibbald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I cannot help you with your overall design because I am more effective writing new code than helping with implementations (very important).  However a couple of points, which are my personal opini