Re: [Bacula-users] efficient disk backups

2009-07-14 Thread mehma sarja
Gavin, Not all data is created equal. You might classify data which is super important and changes often - it needs a lot of care and feeding. It is also data which needs redundancy in backup hardware. Mail tends to be like that. People get a message, read it and then delete it. The next day they

Re: [Bacula-users] efficient disk backups

2009-07-13 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > I guess the time to restore is a function of the number of volumes which > must be consulted and the time seeking through each one. A single file > restore should always be a single volume but multiple files (or even all > files) could potentiall

Re: [Bacula-users] efficient disk backups

2009-07-13 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, thanks for the response. On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Jon Schewe wrote: > The first thing I notice is that you're doing incremental backups every > other day. I'd really encourage you to do them everyday if you can, > otherwise on that odd day you're going to be really unhappy when a disk > crashes

Re: [Bacula-users] efficient disk backups

2009-07-13 Thread Jon Schewe
Gavin McCullagh wrote: > Hi, > > up until now, we've tended to keep backups in a fairly ad hoc manner. > People looking after a particular system have worked out their own way, be > it a proprietary backup tool, or a script of some sort. We've started > setting up bacula and I hope we'll be in a p

[Bacula-users] efficient disk backups

2009-07-13 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, up until now, we've tended to keep backups in a fairly ad hoc manner. People looking after a particular system have worked out their own way, be it a proprietary backup tool, or a script of some sort. We've started setting up bacula and I hope we'll be in a position to backup nearly every sys