Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-10-10 Thread John Drescher
> The reason for this, I supposed, is that this > would require SDs to transfer data over the wire between themselves > while normally data only flows between FDs and SDs. > That is correct. Storage Daemons do not currently communicate. John ---

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-10-10 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:13:26 +0200 René Moser wrote: [...] > SD = Storage Device, I guess. I can not migrate between a file storage > device, to a tape storage device? [...] SD stands for Storage Daemon--it's a program which manages one or more storage devices available on the host a particular

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-10-10 Thread René Moser
On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 18:08 -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:42 PM, René Moser wrote: > > > On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 16:51 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > > > >> It sounds like what you're looking for could be implemented as: > >> > >> 1. A normal Full/Differential/Incremental j

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-09-30 Thread Dan Langille
On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:42 PM, René Moser wrote: > On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 16:51 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > >> It sounds like what you're looking for could be implemented as: >> >> 1. A normal Full/Differential/Incremental job to a disk-based storage >> device to happen during the day. >> 2.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-09-27 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, René Moser wrote: > Okay, it is not _really_ during day it is more like backups over night > to disk and backup to tape should be finished in the morning. But this > is just a detail. We did not have (yet) really (big) problems about > consistency. But as you say these sy

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-09-27 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, René Moser wrote: > On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 16:51 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > > 2. It is apparently not possible to backup all 100 hosts straight to > >tape, so you write them to disk first. Why is that? It sounds like > >you're manually doing "Spooling", which Ba

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-09-27 Thread René Moser
On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 16:51 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > 2. It is apparently not possible to backup all 100 hosts straight to >tape, so you write them to disk first. Why is that? It sounds like >you're manually doing "Spooling", which Bacula has transparent support >for. You coul

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-09-27 Thread René Moser
On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 16:51 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > It sounds like what you're looking for could be implemented as: > > 1. A normal Full/Differential/Incremental job to a disk-based storage >device to happen during the day. > 2. A Migrate job to tape from disk to happen during the nig

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-09-27 Thread René Moser
On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 16:41 +0100, Alan Brown wrote: > > We are currently using a proprietary backup solution, > > Which proprietary backup system? BRU Backup Server > > We have some >100 hosts to backup up. The current "work flow" is like: > > Are these hosts PCs? What do they do? How much c

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-09-27 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, René Moser wrote: > We are currently using a proprietary backup solution, and we evaluation > bacula to replace it. > > We have some >100 hosts to backup up. The current "work flow" is like: > > 1. backup server backups host files over working time to a disk volume > on ba

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-09-27 Thread Alan Brown
René Moser wrote: > Hi > > We are currently using a proprietary backup solution, Which proprietary backup system? > and we evaluation > bacula to replace it. > > We have some >100 hosts to backup up. The current "work flow" is like: Are these hosts PCs? What do they do? How much changes on t

[Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-09-27 Thread René Moser
Hi We are currently using a proprietary backup solution, and we evaluation bacula to replace it. We have some >100 hosts to backup up. The current "work flow" is like: 1. backup server backups host files over working time to a disk volume on backup server. 2. During night, the disk volume is