Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk Volume best practices

2008-05-27 09:38:12
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Disk Volume best practices
From: "John Drescher" <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: "Robin Bonin" <rbonin AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 09:38:06 -0400
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Robin Bonin <rbonin AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> I have about 20 clients that I want to start to backup using bacula.
> All the files are going onto a RAID 5 Array. I understand about the
> disk devices, labels and all, and bacula is really flexable, and
> sometimes that makes things even harder to use.
>
> I am content with making a full backup all my clients onto a single
> device, using a single pool of files. Is there any down side to this?
> The only thing I could imagine would be if I wanted to back up a
> specific clients backup file to another device?
>
This should be fine. For recycling to work well I would limit the
volume size to a 5 to 10GB. One reason is a volume is always recycled
in its entirety. So if you have few volumes more jobs will need to be
recycled at once.

John

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