> I just installed Bacula 5.0.2 on a FreeBSD 8.1 system with about 24TB of disk > space with the intention of doing my backups straight to disk. The storage > array is configured using ZFS, and I've configured Bacula to make backups to > /bacula/FileStorage. > > My question is this: the other day, I re-started the bacula-dir service in > the middle of a backup, and it seems to have corrupted the FileStorage file. > This wasn't a big deal during testing as I could just whack the existing file > and create a new one, but it got me wondering about the resiliency of > FileStorage devices during a backup server crash. > > Is there anything special I should do to make FileStorage devices more robust?
Limit the size of the volumes to a few GB. Also never put all of your backups on a single raid. Use multiple raids and at least 1 copy to each raid. > > Also, is it a good idea to label a separate volume for each backup job? > Some users do that, I do not bother. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
