Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-15 Thread Alan Brown
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: yes, that would be enough to meet my needs, but it would have a big disadvantage over my scheme, because duplicating media would take _hours_. we calculated, that for our current data to be fully backuped, it would take more than 10 hours. It

Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-13 Thread Philipp Steinkrueger
Phil Stracchino wrote: Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: Phil Stracchino wrote: Well, there are future features coming that will make much of this easier, including the copy job (duplicate media), and the migration job (migrate a job from disk to tape). These would allow you to: 1. Make ful

Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: > Phil Stracchino wrote: >> Well, there are future features coming that will make much of this >> easier, including the copy job (duplicate media), and the migration job >> (migrate a job from disk to tape). These would allow you to: >> >> 1. Make full backup >> 2. Dupli

Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-13 Thread Philipp Steinkrueger
Phil Stracchino wrote: Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: Okay, i'll try to explain my idea again: I have two primary goals: G1: Protect data against burn down of the autochanger location G2: Be able to restore any data anytime without inserting tapes into the autochanger I dont think there are

Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: > Okay, i'll try to explain my idea again: > > I have two primary goals: > > G1: Protect data against burn down of the autochanger location > G2: Be able to restore any data anytime without inserting tapes into the > autochanger > > I dont think there are many options

Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-13 Thread Philipp Steinkrueger
Hi Phil, I'm not sure I see what you're after here. In general, it would be a bad idea -- and increase the amount of data to back up -- to make a differential against anything BUT the latest full backup. I utterly fail to see how intentionally running a differential against an older Full backu

Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-12 Thread Phil Stracchino
Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: > Hi Kern, > > > thanx for your reply. i see these options are not supported, so > it seems my idea cannot be realized... anyway, have you read > my other post and got my idea ? if i am right than my concept would > minimze data loss about 50% in case of a burn down. f

Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-12 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, I saw your previous post, but it is the kind of question that I leave to the list to answer. On Friday 12 August 2005 17:05, Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: > Hi Kern, > > > thanx for your reply. i see these options are not supported, so > it seems my idea cannot be realized... anyway, have y

Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-12 Thread Philipp Steinkrueger
Hi Kern, thanx for your reply. i see these options are not supported, so it seems my idea cannot be realized... anyway, have you read my other post and got my idea ? if i am right than my concept would minimze data loss about 50% in case of a burn down. for me that seems to be a too great deal n

Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-12 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 12 August 2005 16:05, Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: > Hi all, > > > as my post about backup strategy and concepts from the 5th > is still unanswered, i am trying to break down my, i have to > admit, long question. > > i think all i need to do what i want is a possibility to tell > bacula to

[Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-12 Thread Philipp Steinkrueger
Hi all, as my post about backup strategy and concepts from the 5th is still unanswered, i am trying to break down my, i have to admit, long question. i think all i need to do what i want is a possibility to tell bacula to do differential backups against a specific full backup and not against th