Re: [Bacula-users] Ideas for a backup strategy

2010-09-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 09/16/10 16:22, David Noriega wrote: > Its an idea, but not what I asked. I would have gone with a completely > disked based backup, but that kind of hardware is expensive to do it > right. I asked about multiplexing. I figure I could take /home and > break it down into /home/[a-k] or something.

Re: [Bacula-users] Ideas for a backup strategy

2010-09-16 Thread Richard Scobie
David Noriega wrote: > Its an idea, but not what I asked. I would have gone with a completely > disked based backup, but that kind of hardware is expensive to do it > right. I asked about multiplexing. I figure I could take /home and My apologies, I distinctly thought you said "as much data as the

Re: [Bacula-users] Ideas for a backup strategy

2010-09-16 Thread David Noriega
Its an idea, but not what I asked. I would have gone with a completely disked based backup, but that kind of hardware is expensive to do it right. I asked about multiplexing. I figure I could take /home and break it down into /home/[a-k] or something. Break /home into say four pieces but it doesn't

Re: [Bacula-users] Ideas for a backup strategy

2010-09-16 Thread Richard Scobie
David Noriega wrote: > both drives and 2) has as much data as these drives can take pouring > into them, since this is taking too long to do a backup. I've read a One solution to feed your drives at full speed, is to build a low cost server containing an array of SATA drives, sufficient to hold

[Bacula-users] Ideas for a backup strategy

2010-09-16 Thread David Noriega
I need some help coming up with a good backup strategy for our situation. I have about 10TB of user home directories(and about the same for lab shares). I've gone through the manual, tutorials, etc and have gotten the basics of Bacula working. I have it setup using our SL48 and its currently backin