On 6/1/20 10:11 AM, Ryan Sizemore wrote: > I am setting up bacula and would appreciate some help in understanding > some of the basics. I apologize in advance since some of these > questions are somewhat basic, yet my google abilities have proved > fruitless. > > I have a pair of LTO4 drives that want to use to backup ~600GB of > data, which should fit on a single tape (800G uncompressed). I would > like to use this as a "disaster recovery" mechanism from which I can > rebuild everything, so ideally the tapes should be unmounted and > stored offsite in a rotating fashion. > > My plan is to perform monthly full backups and nightly incremental > backups. The first day of the month I would use a new tape, which > would then be used for all of the incremental backups for the rest of > the month. At the start of the next month, I would use a new tape, and > the previous take would be rotated offsite. > > How should I setup the jobs/pools to achieve this? Is there a way to > indicate to bacula should consider a volume as "full" once the next > month starts? Would it be possible to automatically unmount and eject > the tape when it is "done" for the month? > > Regarding the ability to rebuild everything from tape alone, my > understanding from the docs is that I need both the backups (full + > incremental) plus the catalog backup. Is there anything missing here? > > Additionally, when it comes time to change the tape at the start of > the month, what is the notification method? Will bacula generate an > email indicating that the volume needs mounted, or will the first job > of the month fail, indicating that I need to swap tapes? > > Lastly, suppose I define a virtual autochanger for the two drives. If > I am writing to volume 1 for this month, can I mount volume 2 in the > second drive so that bacula will recognize it an simply start the next > backup at the start of the next month? > > Thanks, > > Ryan > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Hi Ryan, I have done a series of posts on getting started with Bacula. Starting here: https://www.pbdigital.org/freebsd/bacula/2019/05/13/bacula-config-part-I-freebsd.html Hopefully this may help you. Philip
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