On 9/20/19 5:25 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
> That's fair, although most cloud backup schemes are zero-knowledge, i.e.
> the data is encrypted before it leaves your premises. I don't know how hard
> that is to set up with Bacula because I haven't tried. (One hard truth
> about academia is it's easie
On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 1:02 PM Phil Stracchino
wrote:
> On 9/17/19 2:28 PM, Heitor Faria wrote:
> > Hello Phil,
> >> What are folks using for removable-drive backup storage, how do you have
> >> it configured in Bacula, and how well is it working out for you? I
> >> desperately need a better so
On 9/18/19 12:38 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> ... But I've *got* to get
> away from tape.
*I* want to get away from backups. The group where we use HDDs and
vchanger has data archival policy, that's what that "backup" is: an
archive.
But the other group, we keep the 36-bay ZFS bacula box largel
On 9/18/19 1:23 PM, Dimitri Maziuk via Bacula-users wrote:
> On 9/18/19 11:19 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> On 9/18/19 11:50 AM, Josh Fisher wrote:
>>>
>>> ... I see around 120 MB/s write speeds.
>>
>> But ... that's painfully slow even compared to the LTO-4 drive I just
>> gave up on, which writes
On 9/18/19 11:19 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On 9/18/19 11:50 AM, Josh Fisher wrote:
>>
>> ... I see around 120 MB/s write speeds.
>
> But ... that's painfully slow even compared to the LTO-4 drive I just
> gave up on, which writes at up to twice that.
Well, I get ~300MB/s despooling to SATA (ZF
On 9/18/19 11:50 AM, Josh Fisher wrote:
>
> On 9/17/2019 2:08 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> ... Oh, and also,
>> anything USB need not apply. Too slow. I do have a perfectly good SAS
>> controller available.
>
>
> I suspect you have used USB drives in the past and found them far too
> slow, b
On 9/17/2019 2:08 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
... Oh, and also,
anything USB need not apply. Too slow. I do have a perfectly good SAS
controller available.
I suspect you have used USB drives in the past and found them far too
slow, but I suggest you revisit that. Newer USB drives are not fa
We're using this one and it works fine:
Drive: Tandberg LTO-7 HH SAS2
Produktbeschreibung: Tandberg Data LTO-7 HH - Bandlaufwerk - LTO Ultrium
- SAS-2
Gerätetyp: Bandlaufwerk
Aufnahmestandard: LTO Ultrium 7
Art: Extern
Schni stellentyp:
SAS-2
On 18/09/19 01:52, Dimitri Maziuk via Bacula-u
I do my Bacula backups to my NAS and then rsync the complete folder to
drives which are then offlined after the rsync completes.
David
On 17/09/2019 21:05, Phil Stracchino wrote:
On 9/17/19 3:37 PM, Dimitri Maziuk via Bacula-users wrote:
The other one we have is a 36-bay chassis with ZFS. We
On 9/17/19 7:52 PM, Dimitri Maziuk via Bacula-users wrote:
> On 9/17/19 6:23 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>
>> And just use Bacula's vchanger, you say? I've never actually played
>> with that yet.
>
> Not bacula changer, Josh's vchanger. It has its quirks but you get a
> "magazine" per disk with "
On 9/17/19 6:23 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> And just use Bacula's vchanger, you say? I've never actually played
> with that yet.
Not bacula changer, Josh's vchanger. It has its quirks but you get a
"magazine" per disk with "volume" files and it all stays in the catalog.
So if you ever need to r
On 9/17/19 6:01 PM, Dimitri Maziuk via Bacula-users wrote:
> On 9/17/19 3:05 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>
>> ... I'd prefer to have my full backup media actually
>> physically offline and airgapped when not actually running. Which is
>> why I was asking for people's experiences with removable-dri
On 9/17/19 5:01 PM, Dimitri Maziuk via Bacula-users wrote:
> I think you really want at least 4 drives for this setup
PS. but only one of them really needs to be removable...
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On 9/17/19 3:05 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> ... I'd prefer to have my full backup media actually
> physically offline and airgapped when not actually running. Which is
> why I was asking for people's experiences with removable-drive setups
> and how best to do it in Bacula.
Basic hot-swap SATA
On 9/17/19 3:37 PM, Dimitri Maziuk via Bacula-users wrote:
> The other one we have is a 36-bay chassis with ZFS. We started with 4TB
> "NAS" drives in it and by now replaced them all with 8TB "archive"
> ones... And when it starts getting tight we'll go for 12 or 16 or
> whatever it's gonna be by t
On 9/17/19 2:28 PM, Heitor Faria wrote:
> Hello Phil,
>> What are folks using for removable-drive backup storage, how do you have
>> it configured in Bacula, and how well is it working out for you? I
>> desperately need a better solution here.
>
> Most people are doing remote sites or cloud backu
On 9/17/19 2:22 PM, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> why USB? Ever considered eSATA + external drive cage where you can
> plug in and out the harddrives easily? Using this for years now...
That's exactly the sort of solution I'm looking at. I specifically said
*not* USB in fact. eSATA is de
On 9/17/19 1:08 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> What are folks using for removable-drive backup storage, how do you have
> it configured in Bacula, and how well is it working out for you? I
> desperately need a better solution here.
We stick the old and the cheapest desktop SATA drives into a serve
Hello Phil,
> I'm going to be blunt — I'm sick and tired of all the maintenance and
> media-replacement issues that come with tape (and the re-run backups
> because the tape drive threw an error), and I'm looking to move to a
> different form of backup media. Possibly something comparable to RDX
Hi,
why USB? Ever considered eSATA + external drive cage where you can
plug in and out the harddrives easily? Using this for years now...
usually my backup-drive remains in the system - I have just a second
harddisk I plug in 4 or 5 times a year and then store it in a
different physical l
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