On 9/19/2014 11:35 AM, Hendrik Visage wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Dmitri Maziuk <dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu> wrote: >> On 9/19/2014 9:15 AM, Hendrik Visage wrote: >>> Goodday, >>> >>> I'm investigating options, and my need is to send back-ups to >>> separate storage servers in a round robin fashion. Typically only one >>> of them will be connected at a time. >> How do you intend to restore stuff? > Start with the last full backup and then restore the > incrementals/differentials after that as in normal recovery methods? > > The servers are big and oldish and they have enough disk space for my > current needs and thus not sensible to buy extra hardware yet, but to > have them all run 7x24x366 is a waste of electricity (and heat and > and), so the idea is to turn on the one for that day's backups, and > let it power off via cron after backups finished. If a recovery is > needed, I can turn them all on for that recovery session.
If they both have sufficient disk space, then I suggest configuring the two servers in a two-node Pacemaker cluster using DRBD shared storage. Bacula Dir and clients will always see the cluster as a single entity (IP address), and so no special handling or scheduling would be required. Of course, DRBD is a sort of network RAID-1, so both servers must have sufficient disk space to hold all volumes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users