[Bacula-users] Question about Volume Pools and Strategy

I have recently started using Bacula and have a couple of questions regarding volume pools. I am using 7.2 version, and we have 4 Linux servers with a total of about 100GB of data to backup. 1. We have two different storage devices that are in different locations (because of bandwidth

Re: [Bacula-users] wiping test backups and starting again.

Hmm is there any difference in performance between file system types, ext4 and XFS? hence why I pondered a re-format. On 2 November 2015 at 14:36, Randy Katz wrote: > Yes, however, formatting the disk is a bit extreme, you can just go to the > designated >

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Volume Pools and Strategy

Should each storage daemon/geographic storage location have it's own set of Volume Pools? Or can I share one set of Volume Pools between all of the storage daemons/storage locations? I am using auto labelling as well and it works great. -- Wesley Render, Consultant OtherData

Re: [Bacula-users] wiping test backups and starting again.

On 11/03/15 15:23, Thing wrote: > Hmm is there any difference in performance between file system types, > ext4 and XFS? XFS was developed by SGI as a media system, and its design is optimized for long streaming reads and writes. Nevertheless, it performs enough better than ext4 at short random

[Bacula-users] Problem with Virtual Full

Hi all, I want to use VirtualFull as default policy for my backup, but I have some problem that I'm not able to solve: - I create a specific pool on a new device (disk), and run the Vfull the backup goes well, I can find the new volume into his specific device, but I can't see the Job into

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Volume Pools and Strategy

Hi, for question #2: Yes you have to create different pool, the firts reason is that usually incremental bck lives less than a Full backup, the duration is into the Pool information So in my case I have - p-daily INCREMENTAL with 6 volumes (duration 7 days) - p-weekly DIFFERENTIAL with 4

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Volume Pools and Strategy

Thanks Carlo. This is very helpful. I also found this here which I missed before: http://www.bacula.org/7.0.x-manuals/en/main/Automated_Disk_Backup.html -- Wesley Render, Consultant OtherData --

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Volume Pools and Strategy

Is anyone able to clarify question number 1? I should be all set after that. Thanks! -- Wesley Render, Consultant OtherData -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Volume Pools and Strategy

I don't like to use "label-format" I prefer to set the label by myself. In my installation all the jobs that runs during the same night gone to the same volumes. bye 2015-11-03 17:14 GMT+01:00 Wesley Render : > > Thanks Carlo. This is very helpful. I also found this here

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Volume Pools and Strategy

On 11/03/15 11:23, Carlo Filippetto wrote: > I don't like to use "label-format" I prefer to set the label by myself. > In my installation all the jobs that runs during the same night gone to > the same volumes. I use auto-labeling for my disk volumes, to achieve exactly that end. Each volume