Re: [Bacula-users] Disk backup strategy advice / help

2012-01-17 Thread Sebastien Douche
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 19:15, Adrian Reyer wrote: > Well, as you copy the matching catalog as well it should just be fine. > It depends all on what you want to be your backup be for. In my case I > want to be save from loosing single/some backup media while the backup > server is still fine as I

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk backup strategy advice / help

2012-01-16 Thread Adrian Reyer
Hi Sebastian, On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:38:50AM +0100, Sebastien Douche wrote: > > I think bacula is not the ideal tool for running additional offsite > > backups. And very likely rsync is not a good way if you use bacula. > I rsync data, catalog and bsr files on external disks and I would know >

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk backup strategy advice / help

2012-01-16 Thread Sebastien Douche
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 22:52, Adrian Reyer wrote: Hi Adrian > I think bacula is not the ideal tool for running additional offsite > backups. And very likely rsync is not a good way if you use bacula. I rsync data, catalog and bsr files on external disks and I would know what it's not a goold so

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk backup strategy advice / help

2012-01-05 Thread Alex Ehrlich
Hello, I have managed my offsite backup setup so that only bacula volumes get rsync-ed and it works fine for half a year. Total backup size is about 500Gb, nightly amount of data rsync-ed is between 1 and 10Gb (so my home adsl connection with 10Mbit/s downstream is OK to keep offsite backups a

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk backup strategy advice / help

2012-01-05 Thread keith
On 04/01/2012 21:52, Adrian Reyer wrote: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 12:16:55PM +, keith wrote: >> 460M Dec 29 23:19 Full-0001 >> 26.3G Dec 30 23:52 Full-0003 >> 702MDec 24 23:05 Inc-0001 >> 10.0GDec 30 01:54 Inc-0002 >> 2.3G Dec 31 00:06 Inc-0004 >> 3.1G Dec 31 00:56 Inc-0005 >

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk backup strategy advice / help

2012-01-04 Thread Adrian Reyer
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 12:16:55PM +, keith wrote: > 460M Dec 29 23:19 Full-0001 > 26.3G Dec 30 23:52 Full-0003 > 702MDec 24 23:05 Inc-0001 > 10.0GDec 30 01:54 Inc-0002 > 2.3G Dec 31 00:06 Inc-0004 > 3.1G Dec 31 00:56 Inc-0005 > 611MDec 31 00:56 Inc-0006 Is the 10G on 24t

[Bacula-users] Disk backup strategy advice / help

2012-01-04 Thread keith
I have Bacula 5.2.3 up and running and need some advice with the following I used this tutorial http://bacula.org/fr/dev-manual/Automated_Disk_Backup.html as a starting point and it's working well and I have backups appearing as follows... 460M Dec 29 23:19 Full-0001 26.3G Dec 30 23:52 Full-000

Re: [Bacula-users] disk backup

2011-09-29 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: > > On 9/29/2011 10:35 AM, John Drescher wrote: >> 2011/9/29 Ignacio Cardona: >>> Dear all, >>>              I need some help about a little issue. At the momento I am >>> backing up to several devices but the problem is that i am running >>>  

Re: [Bacula-users] disk backup

2011-09-29 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/29/2011 10:35 AM, John Drescher wrote: > 2011/9/29 Ignacio Cardona: >> Dear all, >> I need some help about a little issue. At the momento I am >> backing up to several devices but the problem is that i am running >> out of space in my hard disk. Is possible to burn up some back

Re: [Bacula-users] disk backup

2011-09-29 Thread John Drescher
2011/9/29 Ignacio Cardona : > Dear all, >     I need some help about a little issue. At the momento I am > backing up to several devices but the problem is that i am running >  out of space in my hard disk. Is possible to burn up some backups into > dvd´s in order to erase the backups in th

[Bacula-users] disk backup

2011-09-29 Thread Ignacio Cardona
Dear all, I need some help about a little issue. At the momento I am backing up to several devices but the problem is that i am running out of space in my hard disk. Is possible to burn up some backups into dvd´s in order to erase the backups in the hard drive?. If possible , when I ne

Re: [Bacula-users] disk backup -- swapping out disks?

2011-08-08 Thread Kleber Leal
Ok, I think you not understood me. When you does a copy job, the bacula will prefer to restore from local disks, since the has not recycled. I have a bacula configured with copy jobs, the off site media is updated twice a month and all restore in local media retention time is done without needed o

[Bacula-users] disk backup -- swapping out disks?

2011-08-08 Thread hymie!
So the question has come up about storing our backups off-site. We're using disk backups, with two USB disks. Each disk is a Storage, and each Storage has a single Pool, and each Pool has max 200 4GB volumes. Part of my configuration is below. What I'd like to do is buy a second matching set o

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk Backup / LabelMedia / UseVolumeOnce / VolumeRetention

2009-08-19 Thread ganiuszka
jaschu wrote: > > Now the question: Will old Volumes be deleted automatically, after > VolumeRetention has passed, or will they remain on disk, in which case I > would have to delete them manually? > Hi, >From Bacula documentation about volume recycling: "...when Bacula recycles a Volume, th

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk Backup / LabelMedia / UseVolumeOnce / VolumeRetention

2009-08-19 Thread John Drescher
> I want to backup to disk, having each Job in a separate Volume. > > For this purpose, I have in bacula-dir.conf > Pool { >  UseVolumeOnce   = yes >  VolumeRetention = 30 days >  AutoPrune       = yes >  ... > } > > ... and in bacula-sd.conf > Device { >  LabelMedia     = yes >  AutomaticMount = y

[Bacula-users] Disk Backup / LabelMedia / UseVolumeOnce / VolumeRetention

2009-08-19 Thread Jan Schulze
Hi all, I want to backup to disk, having each Job in a separate Volume. For this purpose, I have in bacula-dir.conf Pool { UseVolumeOnce = yes VolumeRetention = 30 days AutoPrune = yes ... } ... and in bacula-sd.conf Device { LabelMedia = yes AutomaticMount = yes ... }

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk backup: how to delete purged files on disk?

2008-10-22 Thread Annette Jäkel
Am 20.10.2008 18:02 Uhr schrieb "Kevin Keane" unter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > John Drescher wrote: >>> I am learning how to use bacula to back up to external hard disks. >>> Everything works beautifully, but I notice that after a volume is purged >>> or pruned, it gets status "Recycled" and the actua

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk backup: how to delete purged files on disk?

2008-10-20 Thread Kevin Keane
John Drescher wrote: >> I am learning how to use bacula to back up to external hard disks. >> Everything works beautifully, but I notice that after a volume is purged >> or pruned, it gets status "Recycled" and the actual file on disk stays. >> That looks like perfect behavior for a tape backup, bu

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk backup: how to delete purged files on disk?

2008-10-20 Thread John Drescher
> I am learning how to use bacula to back up to external hard disks. > Everything works beautifully, but I notice that after a volume is purged > or pruned, it gets status "Recycled" and the actual file on disk stays. > That looks like perfect behavior for a tape backup, but for a hard disk > backu

[Bacula-users] Disk backup: how to delete purged files on disk?

2008-10-20 Thread Kevin Keane
Maybe this is an FAQ, but I didn't find the answer... I am learning how to use bacula to back up to external hard disks. Everything works beautifully, but I notice that after a volume is purged or pruned, it gets status "Recycled" and the actual file on disk stays. That looks like perfect behav

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk backup recycling

2007-11-01 Thread Radek Hladik
Hi, option 0 is the best one however there are financial drawbacks :-) The whole situation is like this. I have bacula server with two remote SAN connected drives. SAN does mirroring etc and SAN drives are considered stable and safe. I have the backup rotation schema with 1 weekly full backup

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk backup recycling

2007-10-24 Thread Radek Hladik
Hi, option 0 is the best one however there are financial drawbacks :-) The whole situation is like this. I have bacula server with two remote SAN connected drives. SAN does mirroring etc and SAN drives are considered stable and safe. I have the backup rotation schema with 1 weekly full back

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk backup recycling

2007-10-24 Thread Marek Simon
My opinion to your ideas: 0) Leave the schema as I submited and buy more disk space for backuping. :-) 1) It is best variant I think. The other advantage is that the full backup of all clients would take much longer time then 1/7th full and other differential. Now what to do with Catalog: You ca

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk backup recycling

2007-10-23 Thread Radek Hladik
Hi, thanks for your answer. Your idea sounds good. However if I understand it correctly, there will be two full backups for the whole day after full backup. This is what I am trying to avoid as I will be backing up a lot of clients. So as I see it I have these possibilities: 1) use your

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk backup recycling

2007-10-23 Thread Marek Simon
Hi, I suggest to solve like this: One Pool only. 8 volumes. Retention time 7 days and few hours. Use time 1 day. The use will be like this: first Monday: full backup. volume 1 used and contains the full backup Tue to Sun: diff backup using volumes 2 to 7 (automaticaly selected or created by bacu

[Bacula-users] Disk backup recycling

2007-10-21 Thread Radek Hladik
Hi, I am implementing simple schema for backing up our data. Data are backed up to disk. Full backup is performed every Sunday. The next 6 days differential backups are performed. I want to keep only one Full backup and at maximum 6 daily differences. The moment new Full backup is made,

Re: [Bacula-users] disk backup "without volumes"?

2007-04-02 Thread Kristian Rink
Hi Brenden, list; and first off thanks a lot for all of your hints and inspirations on that issue. ["Brenden Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> @ Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:00:30 +1200] > We currently only use bacula to backup our windows servers and the > backup servers themselves. For all the *NIX boxes w

Re: [Bacula-users] disk backup "without volumes"?

2007-04-01 Thread Brenden Phillips
rs Brenden -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kristian Rink Sent: Saturday, 31 March 2007 2:15 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] disk backup "without volumes"? Folks; maybe the subject sounds strange

Re: [Bacula-users] disk backup "without volumes"?

2007-03-30 Thread Darien Hager
> My question: Is there a way to set up the bacula-storage to dump files > to a disk into a file system structure that could be shared using SMB, > NFS, whatever? How can I achieve this effect, or is it not currently > supported / thought of? Any reading pointers on that? I don't think it's possib

[Bacula-users] disk backup "without volumes"?

2007-03-30 Thread Kristian Rink
Folks; maybe the subject sounds strange, nevertheless: In our environment, we use to do backups (a) from several servers to a machine having a large disk array attached using rsync and (b) from there to tape using afio+wrapper-scripts. So far, this works well, and the reason for making use of thi

Re: [Bacula-users] disk backup and saturation

2006-02-21 Thread Steen . L . Meyer
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[Bacula-users] disk backup and saturation

2006-02-21 Thread le dahut
Hello, I'm trying to install a backup on disk with Bacula. I'm experiencing some problems, my volume grows, grows and grows until it fills up the whole destination disk and then I get an error during backup. Here are my configuration parameters : Client { Name = serv1-fd Address = 10.121

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk Backup Strategy Advice

2006-01-31 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 1/31/2006 6:42 PM, Brad Pinkston wrote: I have 1.2TB worth of space to back up 25 servers. I’d like to do three weeks of backups. Well, at least you have to give some more information: How much data does a full backup consist of today, how many generations of backups do you nee

[Bacula-users] Disk Backup Strategy Advice

2006-01-31 Thread Brad Pinkston
I have 1.2TB worth of space to back up 25 servers.  I’d like to do three weeks of backups.  The director and storage are currently running on the same machine.  I’d like to set this up to do concurrent backups.  I apologize for leaving this so vague, but want to start as much conversation a