[Bacula-users] Particular schedule

2009-09-05 Thread Fabrizio Reale
Hi all, what is the best configuration to keep only the backup of: * the last 7 days * the last 4 sundays * the last 6 31st days of the month * the last 31st of December ? Thank you for your help and your software. Fabrizio

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] feature suggesti on: convert old full backups to? reverse incremental backups

2009-09-05 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 04 September 2009 00:59:28 Gavin McCullagh wrote: Hi, On Thu, 03 Sep 2009, Kern Sibbald wrote: I suspect that all that is already possible with Bacula but may require a bit of scripting. In short, you need support from a Bacula specialist, and we don't do that on this list

Re: [Bacula-users] Can the client initiate backups?

2009-09-05 Thread Bruno Friedmann
Syn, Joonho wrote: Is there a way to make the client initiate backup jobs? Here at my workplace our client machines are all running firewalls which prevent them the bacula-dir from being able the reach the client on port 9102. For testing purposes I manually disabled the firewall but

[Bacula-users] New User Best Practise Questions

2009-09-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I am trying out bacula and reading the manual, I have some questions about what people do as best practice wrt to multiple clients and disc volumes. How big an issue are concurrent jobs being streamed to disc? Should I most certainly always avoid this? In 13.5, its suggested that each client

[Bacula-users] Director Conf Includes

2009-09-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Is it possible to write includes in the dir conf file to include any combination of resource types to keep the single file from growing large and to segment configuration from just a viewing/edit perspective? Thanks, jlc

Re: [Bacula-users] Director Conf Includes

2009-09-05 Thread John Drescher
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Is it possible to write includes in the dir conf file to include any combination of resource types to keep the single file from growing large and to segment configuration from just a viewing/edit perspective?

Re: [Bacula-users] Duplicating Disc Volumes

2009-09-05 Thread John Drescher
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Is there a way in Bacula to output the stream destined to the media director to multiple clients for redundancy, or should I manage this at the OS level? I need to keep a 3 way replication of the backup volumes

Re: [Bacula-users] Using the VirtualFull level with disk backups

2009-09-05 Thread Tobias Brink
Hello. For the reference for anybody who may have the same problem: I'll now solve this with the following setup: * Use 2 pools and 2 devices (disk, with different paths). * Specify the storage in the pools. * Use the one pool in even months the other one in odd months. This will only

Re: [Bacula-users] Duplicating Disc Volumes

2009-09-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale
You can use rsync to mirror the volume files. You can even schedule this in a bacula job so that the synchronization happens after all other jobs. See how the catalog backup works for the idea. Ahh, priority being the ticket here. I will just shell script this then with the catalogue backup.