Hi, we've been happily using Bacula now for a few years, with a couple of big disk arrays as the storage devices/media. We use something along the lines of what the manual documents for fully automated disk-based backups. This has worked well and is really quick and convenient for doing restores from. It's expensive in hard disks though and none of the data is offline so a particularly nasty online incident might take out the backups as well as the live data.
Our plan now is to add a Dell LTO5 drive in and start using a COPY job once per month. Almost everything gets a monthly Full backup to disk, so we'll then copy those jobs to tape and move them off-site. A couple of tapes will be retired from the pool each year and will be stored moreorless indefinitely. Do other people do this? If so, how do you deal with pruning? Do you just let the database grow over time or do you let the data get pruned and use bscan or other low-level volume tools to read them if necessary? Is there another approach I'm missing? Gavin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
