Hi, I've got what is probably a simple question, but the various pool and volume options confuse me.
I've got about 250 GB of data I want to backup on a single linux server. These are users' home directories and email. Most of that data doesn't change much, but we don't have a good way of figuring out what is changing and what isn't. We need to back it all up. We'd like easy access to recent files for the case where someone deletes the wrong file. We also want to take full backups (probably monthly) offsite for long-term archiving and disaster recovery. My idea right now is to use a second machine with a TB of disk storage as a near-line backup machine. I would do a monthly full backup and then 30 days of incremental backups to disk. At the same time as the monthly full disk backup, I could do a monthly full tape backup. That tape would be taken offsite. Does this make sense? It seems like the disk backups would be more convenient and faster to manage than rotating pools of tapes. Any other ideas? On the disk storage server, how would I go about setting up my volumes? I think I basically want a full backup with a volume retention period of 25 days and incremental backup volumes with retention periods of 35 days or so. So, if I do a full backup every month, it will overwrite the old full backup. And, if I do daily incrementals, then I will have a rotating pool of 35 dailys. Do the old dailys get deleted automatically? Do they just get overwritten? When I start out, using automatic volume naming, will the system count up to 35, then start overwriting the older volumes? If someone could give me an idea what these volumes or pools should look like in the config files, I'd appreciate it. Or, if I'm totally off base, let me know. Thanks Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
