Hello,
2014-11-25 18:17 GMT+01:00 Bruno Andrade :
> Hey,
>
> I started recently, to analyze and test Bacula for the company and I'm
> creating a wiki with all the information related.
>
> Is there any document or alike where I can find all the features that we
> can find in Bacula?
>
It is in ma
After nosing around for a day or two, I have decided that Bacula
will not suit my needs. It is an extremely powerful suite of programs, but
it is designed to handle an enterprise environment rather than a home
environment, and getting it to work for my environment would just be more
troub
John Drescher wrote:
>> OK, I think I've got it. Your use of the term "volume" is throwing
>> me a little. I am used to the term meaning "one or more storage media
>> accessed as one logical device". In short, a "volume" is something which
>> shows up as /dev/hdx, /dev/sdx, /dev/mdx, /dev/
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
>> There are several tools and procedures to achieve that. Note that
>> Bacula does not write to raw disks, but creates regular files as
>> volumes it uses, so you can use the OS tools like udev or automounter
>> to get disks mounted when atta
> There are several tools and procedures to achieve that. Note that
> Bacula does not write to raw disks, but creates regular files as
> volumes it uses, so you can use the OS tools like udev or automounter
> to get disks mounted when attached, which is what the above mentioned
> tools rely on.
31.10.2009 2:19, Leslie Rhorer kirjoitti:
>> Amount of Volumes is mostly about recycling. When Bacula recycles (frees
>> old media to a new backup) it does so on volume basis. If it needs to
>> wrote a volume again, it empties the whole volume, and starts writing
>> again.
>>
>> If it's ok to flu
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
>> You do not want multiple partitions.
>
> That's what I thought.
>
>> > Can multiple volumes
>> > reside in a single partition?
>>
>> Yes.
>
> 'Also what I thought.
>
>> > Indeed, I am still not sure what the
>> > advantage for
31.10.2009 0:55, Leslie Rhorer kirjoitti:
> Is the file name Bacula uses easily identifiable? IOW, if I name
> the volume drive01v01, will I see a file named something similar to
> drive01vol01 in the file system? I'm not sure I see any advantage to having
> multiple partitions on a drive
> OK, I think I've got it. Your use of the term "volume" is throwing
>me a little. I am used to the term meaning "one or more storage media
>accessed as one logical device". In short, a "volume" is something which
>shows up as /dev/hdx, /dev/sdx, /dev/mdx, /dev/dmx, etc.
A volume, althoug
> It doesn't identify drives. It identifies volumes that are needed.
> Backups are made to volumes, which on disk are regular files on a
> filesystem partition, not the raw drive. So, for example, if you had 3
> volumes on each drive then you might name them drive01vol1, drive01vol2,
> and drive01v
I will try to comment on the first part at a later time.
> What, exactly, do you mean by "swap out drives"? There will never
> be more than one backup hard drive online at any given time. When you say
> "swap out a drive", do you mean, "take one offline and bring another
> online", or do
> To get recycling to work most likely your hard drive will need to be
> divided into multiple volumes
That doesn't sound very efficient.
> or you can do this with 3 or more hard
> drives each containing 1 volume. The vdisk changer will help in the
For testing purposes only, I wi
Leslie Rhorer wrote:
>> It performs the same function as the disk-changer shell script that
>> ships with Bacula, but with some enhancements. Removable drives are
>> treated as magazines containing some number of volume files. An
>> autochanger has some number of magazine bays into which magazine
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
>> It performs the same function as the disk-changer shell script that
>> ships with Bacula, but with some enhancements. Removable drives are
>> treated as magazines containing some number of volume files. An
>> autochanger has some number of m
> It performs the same function as the disk-changer shell script that
> ships with Bacula, but with some enhancements. Removable drives are
> treated as magazines containing some number of volume files. An
> autochanger has some number of magazine bays into which magazine drives
> can be "inserted"
> -Original Message-
> From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 10:19 AM
> To: Leslie Rhorer
> Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula features
>
> > It sounds to me,
> > t
October 2009 21:47
>>> To: James Harper
>>> Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>>> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula features
>>>
>>> James Harper schrieb:
>>>
>>>>> Arno Lehmann schrieb:
>>>>>
&g
> It sounds to me,
> then, like Bacula might blissfully fill up the root drive, orphaning a chunk
> of the backup stream in the process, and possibly even crashing the system.
>
This would be easily preventable. Just put a folder on the removable
drive so if the drive is not mounted at it's mountp
> > 3. Maintain a virtual fileysystem so all snapshots look like a single
> > backup volume to the user.
>
> Well - here it would probably help if you knew more about Bacula
> already :-)
>
> When doing a restore Bacula can present you with an overview of all
> the files backed up from a certain
> > > Hmmm... to be honest I have never had cause to find out, but I have
> seen
> > > bacula fill up a disk and ask for another volume. The autochanger
> script
> > > should just take care of the rest.
> >
> > I agree with James... from Baculas point of view, the volume files
> > don't matter, jus
1:47
> >> To: James Harper
> >> Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> >> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula features
> >>
> >> James Harper schrieb:
> >>>> Arno Lehmann schrieb:
> >>>>> 30.10.2009 07:24, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
&g
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:22 AM, John Drescher wrote:
>>> 30.10.2009 07:24, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
>>>
>>> > 2. Span multiple target drives
>>>
>>> Sure.
>>
>> I'm not sure if he might has thought of a single backup job spanning
>> multiple drives.
>>
>> This wouldn't be possible AFAIK.
>>
>
> I bel
>> 30.10.2009 07:24, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
>>
>> > 2. Span multiple target drives
>>
>> Sure.
>
> I'm not sure if he might has thought of a single backup job spanning
> multiple drives.
>
> This wouldn't be possible AFAIK.
>
I believe vchanger with each drive being a magazine would do this but
it w
Hi,
30.10.2009 11:56, James Harper wrote:
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Ralf Gross [mailto:r...@stz-softwaretechnik.de] On Behalf Of Ralf
> Gross
>> Sent: Friday, 30 October 2009 21:47
>> To: James Harper
>> Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
&
> -Original Message-
> From: Ralf Gross [mailto:r...@stz-softwaretechnik.de] On Behalf Of Ralf
Gross
> Sent: Friday, 30 October 2009 21:47
> To: James Harper
> Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula features
>
> James Ha
James Harper schrieb:
> > Arno Lehmann schrieb:
> > >
> > > 30.10.2009 07:24, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
> > >
> > > > 2. Span multiple target drives
> > >
> > > Sure.
> >
> > I'm not sure if he might has thought of a single backup job spanning
> > multiple drives.
> >
> > This wouldn't be possible AFA
> Arno Lehmann schrieb:
> >
> > 30.10.2009 07:24, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
> >
> > > 2. Span multiple target drives
> >
> > Sure.
>
> I'm not sure if he might has thought of a single backup job spanning
> multiple drives.
>
> This wouldn't be possible AFAIK.
>
It should work afaict. It certainly wo
Hello,
Personnaly I also wanted multiple copies of my backups. At the moment
I'm using RAID USB disks (2 disks) and like this I can have 2 copies.
Of course that means disks need to be connected on the same machine.
I'm working on a little tool that will be able (through named pipes)
to mak
Arno Lehmann schrieb:
>
> 30.10.2009 07:24, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
>
> > 2. Span multiple target drives
>
> Sure.
I'm not sure if he might has thought of a single backup job spanning
multiple drives.
This wouldn't be possible AFAIK.
Ralf
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Hi,
and welcome here! I hope we can give you all the information you need
- and rely on you to support others, later!
30.10.2009 07:24, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am looking for a backup solution which has the following features:
>
> 1. Back up to removable hard drives
Bacu
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