Hi all, I'm looking at migrating my existing TSM5.5 backup solution to Bacula. I'm hoping some people could point me in the right direction. I currently have TSM set up with a 40Gb disk volume on the
Hi all, I'm looking at migrating my existing TSM5.5 backup solution to Bacula. I'm hoping some people could point me in the right direction. I currently have TSM set up with a 40Gb disk volume on the
Author: Bill Arlofski <waa-bacula AT revpol DOT com>
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 09:50:19 -0400
Hi Steven... I believe that you can accomplish what you are looking for using Bacula's "Copy Jobs", Josh Fisher's excellent "vchanger" add-on, and a little hard work. :) Obviously it is more complica
Is there a benefit of these being so small? In TSM I use 2 x 20Gb volumes on the system disk and 200Gb volumes on the eSATA drives. I'm sure about the 40Gb local stgpool. Not a great deal changes - i
Author: Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk AT bmrb.wisc DOT edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:27:50 -0500
I use ~50GB in case I ever want to archive them (BDR size). I think 1. too big (e.g. terabyte-sized, or spanning your entire disk) is likely to cause problems, and 2. Consider the number of volumes y
Author: Bill Arlofski <waa-bacula AT revpol DOT com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 09:17:59 -0400
Ahhhh It has taken me almost a full 24 hours to realize you were talking about disk volumes (e.g.: partitions) and I am talking about Bacula volumes (files on a partition). For D2D backups, Bacula us
Author: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:23:42 -0400
I use and recommend this as well. I make each removable disk represent a virtual autochanger magazine with a fixed number of same sized volumes. Small volumes also help in the case of recycling. Rem
Author: Bill Arlofski <waa-bacula AT revpol DOT com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:23:55 -0400
Very good point which I forgot to include in my rush to write my last email. :) -- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC http://www.revpol.com/ -- Not responsible for anything below this line -- -- Get
Hi all, I've made a little bit of progress now - and managed to get a single client backed up to bacula (yay!). I haven't been able to find (via bconsole) to show the detailed stats of a client - ie: