Thanks Dave for your input. Just for your information I am not using tapes disks for the storage.
On Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 1:28:49 PM UTC+1, David Westfall wrote: > I am new to Bareos but have been using Bacula for years. > > On Monday, February 22, 2016 at 3:25:01 AM UTC-5, John Naggets wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am currently testing Bareos on Debian 8 with GlusterFS as storage and > > have a few questions, mostly regarding the default/sample config: > > > > 1) Adding new clients (FD) is just a matter of adding a new Job and Client > > in the director config on the server-side, is this correct? > > > If you only want one Director, then yes. I have two servers running > Director. The second on uses Storage on the first. > > > > 2) Any reasons why there are no backups on Sunday in the WeeklyCycle > > Schedule? Is it in order to give enough time for the Full or Differential > > backups on Saturday which might take longer than 24 hours in case of many > > clients and/or data? > > > I think like me, most people are not working on the weekend so there is now > new data to be backed up. I run Daily M-F, Weekly Sat, Full 1st Sat. no > backup on Sunday. > > > 3) What "Maximum Volume Bytes" in the Pool config would you recommend for > > backing around 20 VPS for the Full, Differential and Incremental Pools? I > > have the feeling that 50G, 10G and 1G respectively is not enough or I will > > end up with many files. > > > From the Bacula manual: > This directive is particularly useful for restricting the size of disk > volumes, and will work correctly even in the case of multiple simultaneous > jobs writing to the volume. > > If you do not need to restrict data size on you tape then, you do not need > this option. > > > 4) Is it OK for have all clients saved in the same Pools? or is it better > > to have on pool or three pools (Full,Diff,Inc) per client ? > > > This is up to you. If you do not need to distinguish between your tapes then > one pool is fine. I have three pools, Daily Weekly Monthly. My tapes are > labeled AD AW AF. Separate pools do allow for Job and File retention options > per pool and allow for better recycling. No need to have Daily tapes last as > long as your monthly tapes. > > > 5) Any other hints/optimizations I should care about when adding many > > clients? > Other then a second server I do not back up any of my other computers, around > 35, through Bareoa/Bacula. Important information is stored on a shared > network drive from the main server. That is what I use Bareos for. > > > > > Thanks in advance for your input. > > > > Regards > > John > > > Hope this helps, > > Dave W -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
