[Bacula-users] Antwort: Re: Large scale disk based backups

Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org> wrote on 28.04.2009 12:35:01: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Henrik Johansen wrote: > > Dan Langille wrote: > > Henrik Johansen wrote: > >>>> Hi list, > >>>> > >>>> I have some questions regarding disk based backups that I hope some > >>>> of you > >>>> could answer for me. I am currently managing 100+ UNIX systems that > >>>> are backed up using a variety of scripts which I really would like to > >>>> replace with something solid, flexible, scalable and easy to manage. > >>>> > >>>> Bacula seems to be heavily centralized around tape and my head hurts > >>>> a bit from trying to figure out how to do efficient disk baseed > >>>> backup for 100+ clients without shooting myself in the foot :) > > > > Why do you conclude it is highly centralized around tape? > > > >> I am not concluding anything? When going through the manual I found that > >> a lot was written about tape and less about disk, hence it *seems* more > >> about tape then disk - at least to me. > > Consider that Bacula backs up to Volumes. Volumes belong to Pools. To > Bacula, Volumes can be tapes or disk (and other media). There is no > difference to Bacula. The format is the same. The scheduling, > retention, etc, all the same. > > I think more is written about tape because those particular sections of > the documentation was written before disk backup was implemented. I find > myself talking and writing about tapes more than disks. This may be > because I backup to tape more than to disk. These are unproven theories. > > - -- > Dan Langille
Isn't the only way to backup to disks by emulating tape drives? I'm specifically
talking about http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=47704&group_id=50727
As I understand it, bacula itself doesn't support drives other than tapes. Am I wrong?

Chris

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