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) weekly. 3) Each Bacula client backs up only customer directories (i.e. no etc, var, home,..). 4) I run a daily differential backup on each of the clients Mon-Sat. 5) Weekly is a full backup just before the NFS mount point gets backed up on Sun.
The NFS mount point gets backed up as part of our D.R. weekly on Sunday along with the entire disk farm on the floor (DMX and SYMM). This, obviously, also include backing up the volumes that are system related (/etc, /opt, /var, /bin, usr, ...). That is why I keep them out of Bacula control except for /home and /opt. No, I can't fire the D.R. group, they have a healthy contract with us and it an outsourced business. Suggestions, critical opinions or just a kick at the can are welcome. question: how can I leverage the fact that I have a full disk backup on Sunday of every week? ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
