Hi all! I tried getting this to work the last time I set up Bareos but failed, so figured I'd get some help to see if it's even possible since I want to dive in again.
My network setup is basically a home server that will act as the director, storage daemon, and also a client. There will be a few other clients on the local network, and a couple remote clients. In terms of the backup drive setup, I have two hard drives that I can connect to the server, and at most one is connected at any time, the other is stashed off-site at someone else's house completely disconnected. What I have implemented now (using rdiff-backup) that I want to see if it's possible to emulate with Bareos is that each drive is completely independent from the other. Meaning whenever I do a backup, only the data on the drive currently connected is accounted for. So if I swap my on and off site drives, the newly on-site drive has a backup done accounting for the fact that there have been no backups done on that drive in the last month (or however long it's been). The intent with this is that if my house burns down, I will always have a fairly recent full set of files available to restore through the drive that's currently off-site. It'll be missing some history, and there will be "gaps" in the history whenever it's off-site, but this is acceptable to me. It is not possible to have both drives connected at the same time and rsync / run a copy job, or rather, I *really* want to avoid that being required. Each drive has more than enough space for a full copy of all clients' data plus many incremental backups, and my plan is to do an "Always incremental Backup Scheme", just in case that's important. I toyed with the idea of moving the database itself to the backup drive, but I have other Postgres DBs already, so it doesn't look like that's possible, plus it felt like a hack. Manually running a full backup after swapping drives is an option, but not great since it's manual and takes storage space that feels unnecessary. I assume it'd work with an Always Incremental scheme if push came to shove though. Is this possible in Bareos? Or given the description above, is there some other way I should be doing this setup that is "more correct"? Thanks for any help, and happy holidays! - Leon -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/d555e438-3e07-47ae-9f39-a7faf93fe82en%40googlegroups.com.
