Yes, one volume, one disk, plus all the Bacula conf files and the bootstrap bsr file
PLASSE Lionel | Administrateur systŠmes et r‚seaux 221 All‚e de F‚tan 01600 TREVOUX | Plan d'accŠs Tel : 04.37.49.91.39 pla...@cofiem.fr www.cofiem.fr | www.cofiem-robotics.fr -----Message d'origine----- De : Josh Fisher <jfis...@jaybus.com> Envoyé : mardi 25 janvier 2022 15:10 À : Lionel PLASSE <pla...@cofiem.fr>; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Objet : Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks On 1/25/22 03:31, Lionel PLASSE wrote: > I’ve made a rotation system like this > > With one Bacula storage “backup” corresponding one Bacula device > “Backup”<=> root directory /pool-bacula/ automounted by udev. > And 3 pool full, diff, incr attached to this device > > I have 8 usb disk xfs formatted with a xfs label “Bacula” (better than > uuid to configure udev rules) so udev can mount it automatically when > plugged to the Debian system. I don't use Bacula for usb disk mounting > task > > On each disk I label one volume: > 3 for each 3 month full rotation volumes , Four for each 4 weeks > diff rotation one for the daily incremental auto purged each week To be clear, you are using only a single volume per USB disk? > > By configuring the good retention period between week days and month and > by adding the correct number on jobs volume on each one, you can easily > configure a schedule with 3 steps , > one for full attached to full pool on each first Wednesday a month for > example, > one for diff attached to diff pool each week from 2nd Wednesday to 5th > Wednesday > and the third for incremental each day from Monday to Thursday. > > By this schedule you can keep a great number of backups so each day you can > restore the previous until the Monday with incremental backups, each week > kept by the differental backups and the 3 full montly too. > > De : Radosław Korzeniewski <rados...@korzeniewski.net> > Envoyé : dimanche 23 janvier 2022 11:37 > À : Peter Milesson <mi...@atmos.eu> > Cc : bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Objet : Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks > > Hello, > > pt., 21 sty 2022 o 14:22 Peter Milesson via Bacula-users > <mailto:bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> napisał(a): > If somebody has got experience with disk based, multi volume Bacula > backup, I would be grateful about some information (tips, what to > expect, pitfalls, etc.). > > The best IMVHO (but not the only mine) is to configure one job = one volume. > You will get no real benefit to limit the size of a single volume. > In the single volume = single job configuration you can set up job retention > very easily as purging a volume will purge a single job only. > It is not required to "wait" a particular volume to fill up to start > retention. Purging a volume affects a single job only. And finally you end up > with a way less number of volumes then when limiting its size to i.e. 10G. > > best regards > -- > Radosław Korzeniewski > mailto:rados...@korzeniewski.net > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
