Re: [Bacula-users] New Bacula Server with multiple disks

2021-12-17 Thread Josh Fisher
On 12/16/21 19:39, mac-eduki2.co.uk wrote: Hi Josh Thank you for your reply, advice and link. This is a remote server and as I do not need long term storage of backups it is really for disaster recovery - it is also not located anywhere near the clients. My hope is that if it does crash I wil

Re: [Bacula-users] New Bacula Server with multiple disks

2021-12-16 Thread mac-eduki2.co.uk
Hi Josh Thank you for your reply, advice and link. This is a remote server and as I do not need long term storage of backups it is really for disaster recovery - it is also not located anywhere near the clients. My hope is that if it does crash I will be able to rebuild it and take full backu

Re: [Bacula-users] New Bacula Server with multiple disks

2021-12-16 Thread mac-eduki2.co.uk
Hi Josip Thank you for your reply and advice. I am going to look into creating a volume group. Kind regards Brad On 2021-12-16 11:19, Josip Deanovic wrote: On 2021-12-16 10:44, mac-eduki2.co.uk wrote: Good day I hope this message finds you all well. I have been running a small Bacula server

Re: [Bacula-users] New Bacula Server with multiple disks

2021-12-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 12/16/21 12:41, dmitri maziuk wrote: What kind of drives? In what kind of chassis? If I were setting this up from scratch, I'd go with a ZFS raidz-1 on 3 drives and a (large-ish) SSD in the 4th slot for ZFS write cache and job spool. Unless there's 5th disk: system, in which case I'd use an S

Re: [Bacula-users] New Bacula Server with multiple disks

2021-12-16 Thread dmitri maziuk
On 2021-12-16 3:44 AM, mac-eduki2.co.uk wrote: Good day I hope this message finds you all well. I have been running a small Bacula server with a single disk for a number of years now and it has become a vital part of our small business. I setup our original server with some help from the comm

Re: [Bacula-users] New Bacula Server with multiple disks

2021-12-16 Thread Thomas Lohman
>Can Bacula use my 4 disks in the same way filling up backup1 and than using backup2 etc? The short answer is yes.  We've been doing this for over a decade using sym links to create one logical Bacula storage area that then points off to 40-50 disks worth of volume data on each server.    In g

Re: [Bacula-users] New Bacula Server with multiple disks

2021-12-16 Thread Josip Deanovic
On 2021-12-16 13:01, Josh Fisher wrote: IMHO, the use of RAID is critical, and not optional, when LVM / single filesystem is to be used. A single disk failure would affect the entire filesystem. A 4-disk group is 4 times as likely to fail. If the disks are in hot swap bays, then I would consider

Re: [Bacula-users] New Bacula Server with multiple disks

2021-12-16 Thread Josh Fisher
On 12/16/21 06:19, Josip Deanovic wrote: On 2021-12-16 10:44, mac-eduki2.co.uk wrote: Good day I hope this message finds you all well. I have been running a small Bacula server with a single disk for a number of years now and it has become a vital part of our small business. I setup our origin

Re: [Bacula-users] New Bacula Server with multiple disks

2021-12-16 Thread Josip Deanovic
On 2021-12-16 10:44, mac-eduki2.co.uk wrote: Good day I hope this message finds you all well. I have been running a small Bacula server with a single disk for a number of years now and it has become a vital part of our small business. I setup our original server with some help from the communit

[Bacula-users] New Bacula Server with multiple disks

2021-12-16 Thread mac-eduki2.co.uk
Good day I hope this message finds you all well. I have been running a small Bacula server with a single disk for a number of years now and it has become a vital part of our small business. I setup our original server with some help from the community and am very grateful to anyone who freel