Romain wrote:
Hi dear bacula users,
I'd like to run a backup on 2 reoveable USB disks.
Explainations :
- One disk only is plugged during 1 week. We do full and incr backups on it
during that week.
- The next week we plug the 2nd disk and run the same backup strategy.
The goal is to always have one of the two disks out of the office.
The problem is that i don't know how to manage two disks plugged separately
and running the same backup strategy (i.e. how will bacula manage volumes ?)
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Romain
Romain,
I am doing exactly that, with two 120G hard drives in an external device
connected to the PC via USB.
I perform a full backup on Saturday mornings, then incremental backups
each morning (around 1am) for the rest of the week.
On Friday mornings I swap the hard drives, mark the 'Append' volumes as
'Used' with an SQL script, and then next week's backups are performed on
the second hard drive.
Updating volume stati with an SQL script is maybe not the absolute best
way of achieving the desired aim, but it works.
Each volume is auto-created (auto-labelled) with the creation date as
part of the filename (actually each filename is servername_creationdate).
Rowdy
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