Re: [Bacula-users] Doing a backup only once

2007-02-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 12:15, Alan Brown wrote: > On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, David Romerstein wrote: > > That, in essence, is why I first installed bacula - to backup roughly 2TB > > of data just once (my file count is *significantly* higher than yours, > > though - on the order of 200 million file

Re: [Bacula-users] Doing a backup only once

2007-02-07 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, David Romerstein wrote: > That, in essence, is why I first installed bacula - to backup roughly 2TB > of data just once (my file count is *significantly* higher than yours, > though - on the order of 200 million files across 10s of thousands of > directories). For what it's wo

Re: [Bacula-users] Doing a backup only once

2007-02-06 Thread John Drescher
> I see no problem with what you describe. I would recommend, only, > performing > more than one backup, or duplicating your tape(s) after the backup, so that > you have more than one copy of your files, possibly stored in different > locations. > Agreed. I would not trust my data (medical

Re: [Bacula-users] Doing a backup only once

2007-02-06 Thread C M Reinehr
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 09:57, David Romerstein wrote: > On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I want to backup a larger amount of data (approx. 800GB and a total of 2 > > million files) with a library of Ultrium-3 tapes. > > That, in essence, is why I first installed bacula - to bac

Re: [Bacula-users] Doing a backup only once

2007-02-06 Thread David Romerstein
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to backup a larger amount of data (approx. 800GB and a total of 2 > million files) with > a library of Ultrium-3 tapes. That, in essence, is why I first installed bacula - to backup roughly 2TB of data just once (my file count is *significan