Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple external HDDs as backup media

2005-06-28 Thread Jo
Tony Whitmore wrote: Hi, I've been working on using Bacula on our site (~500 PCs) for the last week or so, and have made great progress on test systems. I'll be backing up about 7 or 8 servers once it's all up and running. On the "proper" backup system I will be using 200GB USB2 external HD

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple external HDDs as backup media

2005-06-27 Thread Tony Whitmore
Rowdy wrote: > I do a full backup on Saturday mornings (1am) creating a new volume for > each server, then a differential backup at 1am all other days for each > server, appending to each respective full backup volume. > > Bacula shouldn't mind about doing a full backup onto one drive (one > volu

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple external HDDs as backup media

2005-06-27 Thread Rowdy
Tony Whitmore wrote: On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:05:13PM +1000, Rowdy wrote: Hi Tony, Hey Rowdy, thanks for your reply. Excellent, I'll have a browse through the manual and see if I can work out how to do that. Quick question - do you perform full backups every time, or just incremental

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple external HDDs as backup media

2005-06-27 Thread Tony Whitmore
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:05:13PM +1000, Rowdy wrote: > Hi Tony, Hey Rowdy, thanks for your reply. > I am running Bacula under FreeBSD and backing up about 6 servers to 120G > hard drives mounted in an external USB enclosure. One drive is in the > enclosure, the other (only two drives) is in th

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple external HDDs as backup media

2005-06-27 Thread Rowdy
Tony Whitmore wrote: Hi, I've been working on using Bacula on our site (~500 PCs) for the last week or so, and have made great progress on test systems. I'll be backing up about 7 or 8 servers once it's all up and running. On the "proper" backup system I will be using 200GB USB2 external HDDs a

[Bacula-users] Multiple external HDDs as backup media

2005-06-27 Thread Tony Whitmore
Hi, I've been working on using Bacula on our site (~500 PCs) for the last week or so, and have made great progress on test systems. I'll be backing up about 7 or 8 servers once it's all up and running. On the "proper" backup system I will be using 200GB USB2 external HDDs as the stoarge medium