Re: [Bacula-users] Lets open up a discussion about estimating required space for backups.

2014-08-18 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Hi Dmitri, WOW! I didn’t know about vchanger. I just read the wiki article about it and this could really change how I do disk based backup. I like using a NAS for bacula in the datacenter but some of my customers have it in their offices and this would really make things cheaper with higher

Re: [Bacula-users] Lets open up a discussion about estimating required space for backups.

2014-08-15 Thread Dmitri Maziuk
On 8/14/2014 7:34 PM, Jeff MacDonald wrote: ... > Is there a good way to plan ahead? If your backup is growing (they always are), you will eventually hit the limits. There are a couple of workarounds: 1. use hot-swappable drives and vchanger. That means manual swapping of drives & re-labeling th

Re: [Bacula-users] Lets open up a discussion about estimating required space for backups.

2014-08-15 Thread Heitor Faria
> > You have a file based storage array available with a capacity of say 6 TB, > and you have to back up 20 clients. > > Lets say I’m going with the default Full/Diff/Inc weekly schedule and that > I’ve had an arbitrary retention time of 1 year on fulls 6 months on diffs > and 1 month on incrementa

[Bacula-users] Lets open up a discussion about estimating required space for backups.

2014-08-14 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Hi, This has plagued me for a while… [ and while it sounds a lot like a home work question… its actually just be being curious and reaching out :) ] Imagine a scenario similar to this: You have a file based storage array available with a capacity of say 6 TB, and you have to back up 20 clients