Re: [Bacula-users] Backup strategy advice

Hello Eddie, On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Eddie Appel wrote: > Ana, > > Thanks for the response, answers inline... > ​You're welcome :).​ > > > On 03/24/2016 06:46 PM, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: > > ​ Hello Eddie,​ > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Eddie Appel

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup strategy advice

On 03/25/2016 11:14 AM, Heitor Faria wrote: Having the same media type between the two changers actually produced a scenario wherein bacula became confused with slot numbers and pool inventory. If memory serves, it was Kern who suggested I use LTOa and LTOb as media types

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup strategy advice

> Having the same media type between the two changers actually produced a > scenario > wherein bacula became confused with slot numbers and pool inventory. If memory > serves, it was Kern who suggested I use LTOa and LTOb as media types between > the changers to avoid this contention. Hello,

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup strategy advice

Ana, Thanks for the response, answers inline... On 03/24/2016 06:46 PM, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: ​ Hello Eddie,​ On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Eddie Appel > wrote: Hello List, Forgive the long post, but I have a situation here

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup strategy advice

​Hello Eddie,​ On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Eddie Appel wrote: > Hello List, > > Forgive the long post, but I have a situation here that requires some > help... > > My current setup... > -- NetApp filer containing ~35TB of data to be backed up to tape > -- Quantumi40 w/

[Bacula-users] Backup strategy advice

Hello List, Forgive the long post, but I have a situation here that requires some help... My current setup... -- NetApp filer containing ~35TB of data to be backed up to tape -- Quantumi40 w/ 2 LTO-5 drives -- Quantum SL3 w/ 1 LTO-5 drive -- HP DL-380G5 with 16GB RAM and 3 x spool hdd -- CentOS

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup strategy with Bacula

Op 2013-03-27 om 13:12 schreef Paul Mather: On Mar 26, 2013, at 11:44 PM, Bill Arlofski wrote: On 03/26/13 22:33, Wood Peter wrote: Hi, I'm planning to use Bacula to do file level backup of about 15 Linux systems. Total backup size is about 2TB. For Bacula server I'm thinking to

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup strategy with Bacula

Thanks all for the help. To use the space more efficiently what I decided to do is use vtapes, limit the file size to 10GB and after a full backup just scp the related files to a server in the office. I still have to do the proof of concept setup but from what I'm reading this should be doable.

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup strategy with Bacula

On Mar 26, 2013, at 11:44 PM, Bill Arlofski waa-bac...@revpol.com wrote: On 03/26/13 22:33, Wood Peter wrote: Hi, I'm planning to use Bacula to do file level backup of about 15 Linux systems. Total backup size is about 2TB. For Bacula server I'm thinking to buy Dell PE R520 with 24TB

[Bacula-users] Backup strategy with Bacula

Hi, I'm planning to use Bacula to do file level backup of about 15 Linux systems. Total backup size is about 2TB. For Bacula server I'm thinking to buy Dell PE R520 with 24TB internal storage (8x 3TB disks) and use virtual tapes. - I'm backing up mostly text configuration files. How many full

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup strategy with Bacula

On 03/26/13 22:33, Wood Peter wrote: Hi, I'm planning to use Bacula to do file level backup of about 15 Linux systems. Total backup size is about 2TB. For Bacula server I'm thinking to buy Dell PE R520 with 24TB internal storage (8x 3TB disks) and use virtual tapes. Hi Peter. First,

[Bacula-users] Backup Strategy for Laptops

All, I'm using bacula to backup desktop and laptop clients. The desktops work well with a schedule, but laptops are another story. Does anyone have a strategy to backup laptops? Is it possible to have the user trigger a backup? Any feedback is welcomed. Anthony Avarca aava...@anl.gov

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Strategy for Laptops

Hi Anthony, Avarca, Anthony wrote: All, I'm using bacula to backup desktop and laptop clients. The desktops work well with a schedule, but laptops are another story. Does anyone have a strategy to backup laptops? Is it possible to have the user trigger a backup? Any feedback is

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Strategy for Laptops

We back up about 200 workstation clients currently backing up, I would say out of that; 80 of them are laptops. I found that rescheduling the backup on failure seems to work with a 10 hour window. This is added to a JobDefs as such: This way, when a user comes in later on in the day and missed

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Strategy for Laptops

Hi, On Fri, 02 Apr 2010, Avarca, Anthony wrote: I'm using bacula to backup desktop and laptop clients. The desktops work well with a schedule, but laptops are another story. Does anyone have a strategy to backup laptops? Is it possible to have the user trigger a backup? It's not the

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Strategy for Laptops

Gavin McCullagh wrote: 1. Start bconsole 2. Type runreturn 3. Type exitreturn 4. The messages are emailed to the user so they know when the job is finished. Assuming the laptop is running a Debian based Linux distro: can't this be automated by running a backup script from

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Strategy for Laptops

Hi, On Fri, 02 Apr 2010, Avi Rozen wrote: Gavin McCullagh wrote: 1. Start bconsole 2. Type runreturn 3. Type exitreturn 4. The messages are emailed to the user so they know when the job is finished. Assuming the laptop is running a Debian based Linux distro: can't this be

[Bacula-users] Backup strategy with new big BaculaServer (HD+Tape backup)

Hi, we use bacula a long time(6 years) to backup linux and windows server. It works create!!! Now one harddisk (Raid5) is defect in the bacula server and we consider to buy a new server. I think we can buy a large server with tapelibrary (DELL TL2000 LTO3). Our consideration are: - We want to

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup strategy with new big BaculaServer (HD+Tape backup)

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:56 AM, thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, we use bacula a long time(6 years) to backup linux and windows server. It works create!!! Now one harddisk (Raid5) is defect in the bacula server and we consider to buy a new server. I think we can buy a large server

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Strategy : One Full Backup + 364 Diferentials

Thanks verymuch for then explanation Martin. I see your point. In fact, we are not so worried about disaster recovery, since this files I mention in this backup are text documents. And generally, users ask restore of some files in particular, not folders. Besides, they usually don't tend

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

. 04.50.64.11.46 - Fax. 04.50.64.23.83 http://www.alpes-controles.fr - Message Original - De: Marek Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: lundi 19 novembre 2007 10 h 30 (GMT+0100) Europe/Berlin Sujet: Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy David is right

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Strategy : One Full Backup + 364 Diferentials

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:55:30 -0300, Augusto Camarotti said: Nowadays we have a backup strategy like this : Daily Backup = Monday-Thursday = Full Backups with individual tapes for each weekday. Weekly Backup = 2nd-5th Friday =3D Full Backups with individual tapes for 7 Fridays Montly

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Strategy : One Full Backup + 364 Diferentials

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:14:24 -0300, Augusto Camarotti said: Hi Mark, thanks for the reply When I was saying the generally 3 GB of data was added, I was counting on data changed, since new data is being added when a change is made. I just don`t express it right. Ah, OK. I didnt

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

. 04.50.64.23.83 http://www.alpes-controles.fr - Message Original - De: Marek Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: lundi 19 novembre 2007 10 h 30 (GMT+0100) Europe/Berlin Sujet: Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy David is right. Bacula is not able to clear

[Bacula-users] Backup Strategy : One Full Backup + 364 Diferentials

Nowadays we have a backup strategy like this : Daily Backup = Monday-Thursday = Full Backups with individual tapes for each weekday. Weekly Backup = 2nd-5th Friday = Full Backups with individual tapes for 7 Fridays Montly Backup = 1st Friday = Full Backups with individual tapes for 12 months This

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

Hi Sebastian, I'm only a newbie to this but looking at your director config settings it looks like you haven't expressed a maximum volume size. Therefore Bacula will keep filling up a volume until your disk runs out. To force Bacula to stop filling a volume and look around for another one

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup strategy without recycling volumes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 DVD's are 4.7GB no? Could get some more data on there, probably. Lucas Di Pentima wrote: Hello all, I'm thinking about creating a backup strategy using DVD-R's and harddisk, maybe you can help me sorting out the strategy. Scenario: *

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup strategy without recycling volumes

Hi Ryan, Ryan Novosielski wrote: DVD's are 4.7GB no? Could get some more data on there, probably. DVD's are really 4.4 I think, but my concern is if my proposed configuration is correct, or convenient. Regards, -- Lucas Di Pentima - Santa Fe, Argentina - Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LUNIX

[Bacula-users] Backup strategy without recycling volumes

Hello all, I'm thinking about creating a backup strategy using DVD-R's and harddisk, maybe you can help me sorting out the strategy. Scenario: * Bacula 1.38.x * Debian Linux director * Debian Linux Windows clients * Two schedules: ServerCycle (at night) and WorkstationCycle (start at

[Bacula-users] backup strategy/config questions

Hi, I want to backup 2 of our server to tape (AIT-2, 50GB native, 65-70GB compressed, TLS-4210 12 slot autochanger). bacula 1.36.3 (debian sarge, maybe I'll build bacula 1.38.4 from source...) is running and I'm already able to backup to tape. Both machines are also backed up to disk by an other

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy/config questions

Hello, On 1/19/2006 12:08 PM, Ralf Gross wrote: Hi, I want to backup 2 of our server to tape (AIT-2, 50GB native, 65-70GB compressed, TLS-4210 12 slot autochanger). bacula 1.36.3 (debian sarge, maybe I'll build bacula 1.38.4 from source...) is running and I'm already able to backup to tape.

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy/config questions

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Arno Lehmann wrote: Using volumes from more than one pool in one autochanger is not supported with 1.36, and you will probably run into problems sooner or later. That's not quite right, I have 4 pools loaded in my autochanger and have had for several years. The problem

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy/config questions

On Thursday 19 January 2006 15:10, Alan Brown wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Arno Lehmann wrote: Using volumes from more than one pool in one autochanger is not supported with 1.36, and you will probably run into problems sooner or later. That's not quite right, I have 4 pools loaded in my

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy/config questions

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: The workaround for pool contention is to disable multiple simultaneous backups, which unfortunately defeats the purpose of having multiple drives, but is better than having backups aborting. A better workaround is to upgrade to 1.38.4 or 1.38.5, where

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy/config questions

Hi, On 1/19/2006 3:10 PM, Alan Brown wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Arno Lehmann wrote: Using volumes from more than one pool in one autochanger is not supported with 1.36, and you will probably run into problems sooner or later. That's not quite right, I have 4 pools loaded in my

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy/config questions

Hello, On 1/19/2006 3:11 PM, Ralf Gross wrote: ... Determining the right strategy is, obviously, up to you. (You wouldn't be the first to discover that your autochanger doesn't fit your needs, though.) At the moment, tapes are the only way to archive data and put them into a safe here.

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy/config questions

Arno Lehmann schrieb: On 1/19/2006 3:11 PM, Ralf Gross wrote: [snip] At the moment, tapes are the only way to archive data and put them into a safe here. 200GB+ disk are still more expensive and need more space than tapes. No, I wouldn't recommen to use disks as backup media *shudder*...

[Bacula-users] Backup Strategy

I have set up Bacula's director to manage about 50 GB of daily changes out of 200 GB of disk space expected to grow to 1 TB this year as follows: 1) It uses disk i.e. storage=file (instead of tape) for the actual backups. 2) The disk is actually an NFS mount point that gets backed up (think dd)

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup strategy not-so-strict schedule

Alan Brown wrote: On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Timo Neuvonen wrote: - nominally, the next tape would be taken into use in the beginning of every month Reasons behind this are minimal manual handling of the tapes, knowing there will be loss of up to one month's data if the current tape gets

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup strategy not-so-strict schedule

On Sunday 25 September 2005 00:24, Timo Neuvonen wrote: After some occasional experiments with Bacula, I finally started reading the manual (my printed version is for 1.36.0) page by page, my goal being to set up a decently working backup strategy instead of occasional backups. So far, my

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup strategy not-so-strict schedule

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Timo Neuvonen wrote: - nominally, the next tape would be taken into use in the beginning of every month Reasons behind this are minimal manual handling of the tapes, knowing there will be loss of up to one month's data if the current tape gets destroyed. I believe my tape

[Bacula-users] Backup strategy not-so-strict schedule

After some occasional experiments with Bacula, I finally started reading the manual (my printed version is for 1.36.0) page by page, my goal being to set up a decently working backup strategy instead of occasional backups. So far, my idea is roughly the following: - pool of 12 tapes, each of

[Bacula-users] backup strategy

I have 10 systems to be backed up evenly divided into linux and windows boxes (5 5). I want to maintain two pools one for each type and have separate volume for each job. So Pool-A will have vol-001, vol-002 and so on for the 5 linux machines and similarly for the windows machine pool. Each pool

[Bacula-users] backup strategy

I have 10 systems to be backed up evenly divided into linux and windows boxes (5 5). I want to maintain two pools one for each type and have separate volume for each job. So Pool-A will have vol-001, vol-002 and so on for the 5 linux machines and similarly for the windows machine pool. Each pool

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

Aditya Ivaturi wrote: and so on. In this case Lun11 and Lun12 are the two partitions defined by individual storage configs. Thus this should create 5 volumes labled LIN-0001 and so on for linux boxes on Lun11 and recycle them right? Well the jobs ran fine the first day and created those

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

What is the output of a List Volumes command? Little background - Default Pool was set up initially when I was just getting everything set up. Then I moved things around to have a more structure. Default is not in use any more but the catalog is still the same. The jobs for windows boxes

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

Well, right away it's apparent that there's no volumes in your Win-Pool (therefore, no appendable volumes); all the volumes in your Lin-pool are used (all on the same day), but not recycled -- presumably they have not reached their retention date; and all the volumes in your Default pool

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

Hello, Aditya Ivaturi wrote: I have 10 systems to be backed up evenly divided into linux and windows boxes (5 5). I want to maintain two pools one for each type and have separate volume for each job. So Pool-A will have vol-001, vol-002 and so on for the 5 linux machines and similarly for

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

Hi, theres no need to include [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the To-addresses. I admit that sometimes I forget to trim the addresses, but usually you will never have to deal with that address... Aditya Ivaturi wrote: ... So if I am understanding it correctly, my config was default i.e 0 which means

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

Pool { Name = Lin-pool Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes # automatically recycle Volumes AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes Volume Retention = 6 months Accept Any Volume = yes # write on any volume in the pool Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 Label Format = LIN-

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

Aditya Ivaturi wrote: The Volume Use Duration directive defines the time period that the Volume can be written beginning from the time of first data write to the Volume. If the time-period specified is zero (the default), the Volume can be written indefinitely. Otherwise, when the time period

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

Hi, Aditya Ivaturi wrote: ... I was actually thinking the same thing what you pointed out, but I followed the example that was given in Using Pools to Manage Volume http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Using_Pools_Manage_Volumes.html. If you see the example there, you'll notice that I did

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

Might be :-) The examples given seem to be right - you have to consider when jobs are run to go to the pools in the example. There will, for example, be a Diff pool for differentials. These are run once a week, and they expire after 40 days - and there is only one job in he

[Bacula-users] backup strategy

Hello, Now am trying to plan my backup strategy. I have about 1TB data and in server i have 5 harddrives (200Gb), now they are configured as RAID-stripe. But it is not good, because if one of hard will die then i will loose all my backups, so i want to configure these 5 drives as different

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

Hello, viktorija wrote: Hello, Now am trying to plan my backup strategy. I have about 1TB data and in server i have 5 harddrives (200Gb), now they are configured as RAID-stripe. But it is not good, because if one of hard will die then i will loose all my backups, so i want to configure

[Bacula-users] backup strategy

Dear List! I try to to implement Bacula for a small company. I have succesfully installed and configured bacula (congrats to all, who writed the manual), but I need a little help, to develop the backup strategy. I plan to do the backup to 200 MB IDE disks, and I think, that I have enough space,

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

Hello, Sza'sz Endre Istva'n wrote: Dear List! I try to to implement Bacula for a small company. I have succesfully installed and configured bacula (congrats to all, who writed the manual), but I need a little help, to develop the backup strategy. I'll see if I can suggest something... I