On 02/06/14 23:01, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Your comments are quite valid. However a better approach to solving the
> problem is when people like you (especially English speakers) find the
> solutions, you modify the documentation to include the correct words for
> someone not familiar with the software to understand it, and then send
> that in as a contribution, then everyone (including me) benefits from
> your work :-)
At this stage, I'm still not sure I have things set up correctly myself.
I'm not quite clear with all knobs and buttons in Bacula. TSM is all
coming from a file based - not job based. This means that things like
retention are handled per file - not per job.
I'm not exactly clear what will happen with a file that is still a
system that is backed up and the retention time expires. Is that file
backed up again on the next incremental? Does it not get backed up at
all again?
My current config does a Full backup once - then a nightly incremental.
I'm not exactly sure that this will do what I want - but I can't find
anything that says either way...
Some of my backups are multi-Gb and are over a slow (5Mbit) link - as
such, incrementals are good - and full backups take hours. I'm not
convinced that Bacula handles this case well however - but I am yet
unable to prove one way or another.
The whole concept of removable media in Bacula makes sense for tapes,
but does not translate well to removable disks. vchanger is a rather
nasty hack - but (kinda) works. It would be much nicer to have bacula
deal with removable disks directly - and not hacked in. In the TSM
world, this was easily done by "vary offline /path/to/volume" and can
easily be scripted. TSM then knows the volume isn't available and
doesn't try to use it. During a restore, it will say "VOLUME <blah>
required".
I'm not sure if this would take much to implement in bacula - but it
would be lightyears ahead of what is currently there....
Thoughts and comments?
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Steven Haigh
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