Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-10-10 Thread René Moser
On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 18:08 -0400, Dan Langille wrote: On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:42 PM, René Moser wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 16:51 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: It sounds like what you're looking for could be implemented as: 1. A normal Full/Differential/Incremental job to a

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-10-10 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:13:26 +0200 René Moser r...@adfinis.com wrote: [...] SD = Storage Device, I guess. I can not migrate between a file storage device, to a tape storage device? [...] SD stands for Storage Daemon--it's a program which manages one or more storage devices available on the

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-10-10 Thread John Drescher
 The reason for this, I supposed, is that this would require SDs to transfer data over the wire between themselves while normally data only flows between FDs and SDs. That is correct. Storage Daemons do not currently communicate. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-09-30 Thread Dan Langille
On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:42 PM, René Moser wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 16:51 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: It sounds like what you're looking for could be implemented as: 1. A normal Full/Differential/Incremental job to a disk-based storage device to happen during the day. 2. A Migrate

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-09-27 Thread Alan Brown
René Moser wrote: Hi We are currently using a proprietary backup solution, Which proprietary backup system? and we evaluation bacula to replace it. We have some 100 hosts to backup up. The current work flow is like: Are these hosts PCs? What do they do? How much changes on them each

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-09-27 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, René Moser wrote: We are currently using a proprietary backup solution, and we evaluation bacula to replace it. We have some 100 hosts to backup up. The current work flow is like: 1. backup server backups host files over working time to a disk volume on backup

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-09-27 Thread René Moser
On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 16:41 +0100, Alan Brown wrote: We are currently using a proprietary backup solution, Which proprietary backup system? BRU Backup Server We have some 100 hosts to backup up. The current work flow is like: Are these hosts PCs? What do they do? How much changes on

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-09-27 Thread René Moser
On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 16:51 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: It sounds like what you're looking for could be implemented as: 1. A normal Full/Differential/Incremental job to a disk-based storage device to happen during the day. 2. A Migrate job to tape from disk to happen during the night.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-09-27 Thread René Moser
On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 16:51 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: 2. It is apparently not possible to backup all 100 hosts straight to tape, so you write them to disk first. Why is that? It sounds like you're manually doing Spooling, which Bacula has transparent support for. You could, in

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-09-27 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, René Moser wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 16:51 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: 2. It is apparently not possible to backup all 100 hosts straight to tape, so you write them to disk first. Why is that? It sounds like you're manually doing Spooling, which Bacula has

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula disk to tape config

2011-09-27 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, René Moser wrote: Okay, it is not _really_ during day it is more like backups over night to disk and backup to tape should be finished in the morning. But this is just a detail. We did not have (yet) really (big) problems about consistency. But as you say these