Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-15 Thread Alan Brown
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: yes, that would be enough to meet my needs, but it would have a big disadvantage over my scheme, because duplicating media would take _hours_. we calculated, that for our current data to be fully backuped, it would take more than 10 hours. It

Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-13 Thread Philipp Steinkrueger
Hi Phil, I'm not sure I see what you're after here. In general, it would be a bad idea -- and increase the amount of data to back up -- to make a differential against anything BUT the latest full backup. I utterly fail to see how intentionally running a differential against an older Full

Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: Okay, i'll try to explain my idea again: I have two primary goals: G1: Protect data against burn down of the autochanger location G2: Be able to restore any data anytime without inserting tapes into the autochanger I dont think there are many options for G1,

Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-13 Thread Philipp Steinkrueger
Phil Stracchino wrote: Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: Okay, i'll try to explain my idea again: I have two primary goals: G1: Protect data against burn down of the autochanger location G2: Be able to restore any data anytime without inserting tapes into the autochanger I dont think there are

Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: Phil Stracchino wrote: Well, there are future features coming that will make much of this easier, including the copy job (duplicate media), and the migration job (migrate a job from disk to tape). These would allow you to: 1. Make full backup 2. Duplicate the

Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-13 Thread Philipp Steinkrueger
Phil Stracchino wrote: Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: Phil Stracchino wrote: Well, there are future features coming that will make much of this easier, including the copy job (duplicate media), and the migration job (migrate a job from disk to tape). These would allow you to: 1. Make

Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-12 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 12 August 2005 16:05, Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: Hi all, as my post about backup strategy and concepts from the 5th is still unanswered, i am trying to break down my, i have to admit, long question. i think all i need to do what i want is a possibility to tell bacula to do

Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-12 Thread Phil Stracchino
Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: Hi Kern, thanx for your reply. i see these options are not supported, so it seems my idea cannot be realized... anyway, have you read my other post and got my idea ? if i am right than my concept would minimze data loss about 50% in case of a burn down. for me