Hi,
What I've done is the following:
I've got 5 External USB HDD, one for Monday, one for Tuesday etc and
have set up pools and jobs accordingly e.g. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
etc.
I've added a RunBeforeJob script to Mount the HDD to a dir
called /opt/Backup
Once the entire backup of the {WeekDay} Pool has completed the HDD is
unmounted by a RunAfterJob script so that the user can just go and
unplug the one HDD and plug in the next without having to umount and
remount the HDDs.
The only downside of doing this is that you have to have a job for every
machine and x the amount of pools e.g. in my scenario I have 12 machines
and 5 pools so the amount of jobs specified = 60 but it works.
My run before job looks something like:
mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb /opt/Backup
Run After Job:
umount /opt/Backup
If you have a better way please let me know
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Bacula-users] Removable HDD backup
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:39:35 -0500
Tonight, on IRC, we solved the following problem (original posted to
http://www.nabble.com/Removable-HDD-backup-to14286773.html):
> My goal is to have bacula backup onto an external HDD source that
> rotates. As in, there are three HDDs in rotation and at least one
> different HDD is put into the server every night. The other two HDDs
> are off somewhere safe. I need bacula to backup onto each HDD in such
> a way that a any of the HDDs will restore most of the files (as recent
> as it can be with the rotation schedule).
>
> Now I'm not sure if I should make bacula have more than one volume or
> if it can auto create volumes when another blank drive is present...
> any suggestions would be excellent.
After concluding Bacula can't do this without Bacula knowing what was on
each given HDD. I figured it could be done but it would be messy. It
would involve three different FileSet definitions for each client, etc...
Then the original figured we could just backup to local fixed HDD, then
copy the Bacula volumes over to the HDD. I suggested rsync instead.
This solution has the great features of always having a complete backup
set local and at least two complete copies of the Volumes offsite at all
times.
We all thought we should post this for the archives. A very simple
solution. Suggestions welcome though.
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