Re: [Bacula-users] Second level backup to external HD

2019-12-13 Thread Josh Fisher
On 12/13/2019 1:35 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 2019-12-13 15:18, Josh Fisher wrote: I do something similar, only monthly copies, rather than weekly. I do not use differential backups at all, but rather quarterly fulls, monthly virtual fulls in between quarterlies, and daily incrementals.

Re: [Bacula-users] Second level backup to external HD

2019-12-13 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 2019-12-13 15:18, Josh Fisher wrote: I do something similar, only monthly copies, rather than weekly. I do not use differential backups at all, but rather quarterly fulls, monthly virtual fulls in between quarterlies, and daily incrementals. A monthly Copy job makes copies of the virtual fu

Re: [Bacula-users] Second level backup to external HD

2019-12-13 Thread Josh Fisher
On 12/13/2019 3:03 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. At a site I manage, we've got Bacula backing up a bunch of clients to a NAS SD daily. Occasionally (once a week ATM) we want to move the backed up data to an external HD for more resilience. I'm asking for suggestion on how to better do

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about bacula

2019-12-13 Thread Heitor Faria
Hello Kern, Just to add, Bacula Systems added several improvements to its BMR technology in the last years. I'm almost sure restoring from and to UEFI machines is supported; also P2V, V2P. Regards, -- MSc Heitor Faria CEO Bacula LatAm mobile1: + 1 909 655-8971 mobile2: + 55 61 98268-4220 Améric

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about bacula

2019-12-13 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Some time ago, the project provided bare metal recovery, but the boot process has evolved significantly since then with many differences between vendor, which made maintenance of the BMR too onerous.  However, Bacula Systems as a part of their commercial offering does offer selected Li

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about bacula

2019-12-13 Thread Pierre Bernhardt
Hello, I think what you mean is a bare metal recovery procedure. This is generally possible but needs some special preparations and instructions. It is not a full out of the box recovery procedure. It depends on how secure you backup you servers. I've already written a complex base article but I

[Bacula-users] Second level backup to external HD

2019-12-13 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. At a site I manage, we've got Bacula backing up a bunch of clients to a NAS SD daily. Occasionally (once a week ATM) we want to move the backed up data to an external HD for more resilience. I'm asking for suggestion on how to better do this. Currently, I'm using vchanger and Copy j