On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:05:33PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> Hello list!
> 
> I'm just planning my Bacula environment and I have a couple of questions.. 
> 
> Description of what I want to do:
> 
> - Backup multiple servers first to disk (all backups go to the same disk 
> pool), 
>   and then move/copy from disk to tape.
>       - I have read about Migration support in bacula, so that's one
>         possibility if "Copy jobs" (in bacula 2.3 beta) doesn't work
>         well enough yet..
> 
> - I want to have just one pool, because making separate pool for each client
>   would be too much work.. too many clients/servers for that. 
> 

Or actually I guess I need two pools for the automatic volume labeling to
work.. one for full backups, and one for incremental backups..

It feels like a much easier solution to have a common pools shared with all
clients.. when the amount of clients gets big. 

> - Run backup jobs of multiple servers simultaneously to make the backup window
>   shorter.
> 
> - Keep backups on disk as long as possible, because restoring from disk is
>   much faster than from tape. And tapes will be in offsite/remote location.
> 
> - Take full backups once a week, and incrementals other days of the week.
> 
> - Let's say I have for example 1 TB of disk space available for backups, and
>   I'd like to keep it full of backups.. oldest backups being removed
>   automatically to make room for new backups. 
> 
> - It would be nice to have separate file (volume) on disk for each backup job 
>   per server.. "server1-full-date", "server2-full-date", "server1-incr-date"
> 
> That's my list of requirements at the moment.. I know there are many ways to
> get things done with Bacula, so all tips are welcome :) 
> 
> Then the questions:
> 
> 1) Are there any limitations about running multiple jobs at the same time
>    backing up to the same (disk) pool? 
> 
> 2) Does automatic volume labeling/recycling have problems with multiple jobs
>    being ran at the same time (simultaneously) ?
> 
> 3) "Use Volume Once = yes" should make it possible to have a separate volume
>    per job per server? (like described above) 
> 
> 4) What's the easiest way to "keep the disk full of backups but still have
>    room for new backups" ?
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 

-- Pasi

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