Hi there, we've been running BackupPC for over 2 years now and it's great! Now I'm going to implement the next step in our backup strategy. We've got a Bacula set up and running which currently stores our database dumps to tape. Now I'd also like to backup the BackupPC data to tape.
I configured an archive host and was able to successfully create archives. I've got the following circumstances/wishes and I'm looking for suggestions, pointers, best-practices etc. - tapes have 400 GB raw capacity, about 60 is used by database dumps - I've got 26 hosts backed up, some of them are already out of business and just kept - the sum of all full backups is 424 GB, backup sizes are: * one host with 122 GB * one with 93 GB * 10 hosts with 10-30 GB each * the rest below 10 GB (6 below 4 GB) - creating a TAR for a host takes about 5 minutes/GB, so the 120 GB host should take about 10 hours I'm looking for a way to schedule tape backup in such a way that - I'm not exceeding a tape's size - creating the archives doesn't take longer than about 16 hours so the process doesn't interfere with the next BackupPC run; I'm envisioning that BackupPC's ready with the servers in the morning so the backup server has all day to perform tape backup. - each of BackupPC's hosts is backed up to tape regularly - created archives are removed automatically after being written to tape (streaming directly to tape would be marvellous!) - all of this is nicely integrated with Bacula Has anybody done something similar before? Bye&Thanks, Tino. -- www.craniosacralzentrum.de www.spiritualdesign-chemnitz.de www.forteego.de Tino Schwarze * Lortzingstraße 21 * 09119 Chemnitz ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
