I am doing something similar. I wrote small bash script that mounts the
drive and runs rsync to copy the /var/lib/bareos folder to two USB
drives that I rotate for offsite storage. The script is run daily by cron.
On 4/7/21 3:24 AM, Andy Feys wrote:
Thank you, I've found out which files to copy/rsync to disk. If I copy
the full folder /var/lib/bareos I have everything I need, I think.
On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 4:29:50 PM UTC+2 Jon Schewe wrote:
First, make sure that your bootstrap files get written to that
drive. This will help with recovery.
It might be helpful to have a database dump there as well.
A couple of options.
1) If your initial backups are using disk, you could just use
rsync to keep the USB drive in sync at regular intervals.
2) If you are using tape or don't want to use rsync, you can use a
copy job to do offsite backups. I have a system setup that every 2
weeks does a Virtual Full backup to the external drive and I take
that drive offsite. The level for this job is "VirtualFull". The
Storage and Virtual Full Pool properties are where you want to
create the backup copy. The Pool attribute is where you want to
copy from.
Searching for virtualfull on
https://docs.bareos.org/Configuration/Director.html provides some
help.
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*Sent:* Wednesday, March 31, 2021 08:49
*To:* bareos-users <[email protected]>
*Subject:* [External] [bareos-users] How to copy the full backup
to a USB hard drive weekly
Hi,
I am very new to Bareos, so this might be a very stupid question.
But I haven't been able to get this to work and can't seem to find
the correct info for this.
I've succesfully installed two linux testservers, one acting as
bareos server, the other uses bareos to backup its data to it.
Both are ubuntu servers in case this matters.
This setup works perfectly.
Now I would like to test the next important thing (for us anyway):
I want to copy the backups from the bareos server to a usb hard
drive for offsite storage.
Let's say I mount this hard disk in /extdisk.
What would it take and how could I copy everything from the bareos
server to this disk so I can restore it all in case the location
where the server is stored burns to the ground.
I have created a file in /etc/bareos/bareos-sd.d/device/ named
USBStorage.conf with the following contents:
Device {
Name = USBStorage
Media Type = File
Archive Device = /extdisk
LabelMedia = no;
Random Access = yes;
AutomaticMount = yes;
RemoveableMedia = yes;
AlwaysOpen = no;
Description = "External USB drive"
}
I created a file USB.conf in /etc/bareos/bareos-dir.d/storage name
USB.conf with the following contents:
Storage {
Name = USB
Address = testubuntubareos
Password = ""
Device = USBStorage
Media Type = File
}
bconsole reload works without error after this. And I can see
"USB" in the Storage Devices section of the web-ui. But I don't
know how to define a correct job to create a copy of everything
onto USB.
Does anyone have any info about this? Or interesting weblinks
where I can find the relevant info?
best regards, and thank you,
Andy
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