Re: [Bacula-users] backing up to disk - vtapes

2012-05-21 Thread Romer Ventura
>> Are the file based backups supposed to increase and decrease the file >> size for the vtape depending on what's used for a particular run or >> once the file size is set there is no resize for them?? >> >They are supposed to increase up to whatever limit were set on them when the volume was c

Re: [Bacula-users] backing up to disk - vtapes

2012-05-21 Thread John Drescher
> Are the file based backups supposed to increase and decrease the file size > for the vtape depending on what’s used for a particular run or once the file > size is set there is no resize for them?? > They are supposed to increase up to whatever limit were set on them when the volume was created

[Bacula-users] backing up to disk - vtapes

2012-05-21 Thread Romer Ventura
Hello, I am backing up to disk and I am having some issues with a particular pool. Mail-diff-pool: Pool { Name = MailPool-Diff-tape Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 1 months Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 Label Format = "H22-Diff-" Maximum Vo

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up to Disk

2009-10-22 Thread John Drescher
> I currently have 5 systems that I want to backup to my new Bacula instance. > But first, I’m trying to figure out a methodology to get everything working > correctly. > > > > I have my passwords all sorted out, and my B-dir, B-sd, and B-fd all seem to > like each other for now. (Amazing how three

[Bacula-users] Backing up to Disk

2009-10-22 Thread Gabriel - IP Guys
Dear All, I currently have 5 systems that I want to backup to my new Bacula instance. But first, I'm trying to figure out a methodology to get everything working correctly. I have my passwords all sorted out, and my B-dir, B-sd, and B-fd all seem to like each other for now. (Amazing how thr

Re: [Bacula-users] backing up to disk and tape

2005-12-08 Thread Jari Fredriksson
Christoph Haas wrote: On tape it usually does not make sense to use software-compression. When storing files on (hard)disk software compression (GZIP) is really helpful to save space. The only way to seperate this is two file sets with different "Compression" options. I may be dumb, but I DO

Re: [Bacula-users] backing up to disk and tape

2005-12-08 Thread Christoph Haas
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 00:21, Jason Tan wrote: > Rob Burris wrote: > So what I have is separate file sets for disk and tape and that means I > get two full backups and two sets of diffs for each (identical file > set). IMHO this is a good idea. And not just because I do it the same way. :)

Re: [Bacula-users] backing up to disk and tape

2005-12-06 Thread Jason Tan
Rob Burris wrote: Is it possible to use Bacula to backup to both disk and tape? For example, you could do a monthly full backup to disk and daily incremental to tape. I tried creating two jobs for each client, but when the incremental ran Bacula could not find a suitable full backup volume (

[Bacula-users] backing up to disk and tape

2005-12-06 Thread Rob Burris
Is it possible to use Bacula to backup to both disk and tape? For example, you could do a monthly full backup to disk and daily incremental to tape. I tried creating two jobs for each client, but when the incremental ran Bacula could not find a suitable full backup volume (probably because it'