Re: [Bacula-users] Starting again with my bacula config...
2014-06-08 04:34:10
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Hello,
I cannot help you with your overall design because I am more
effective writing new code than helping with implementations (very
important). However a couple of points, which are my personal
opinions:
1. Your setup is medium size and would work fine with MySQL, but if
you can accept a short term learning curve and would like long term
peace of mind, I would use PostgreSQL to avoid performance problems
later. It is harder to setup correctly and tune in the beginning
(performance is pretty bad with the out of the box PostgreSQL
configuration, but longterm it performs in big installations *much*
better than MySQL.
2. You need to carefully setup incrementals forever, but Bacula has
supported that feature from the beginning and if you take the time
to understand and use Virtual Full jobs and accurate backups (at
least once a week), Incrementals forever can be much more efficient
compared to normal backups. If you don't use accurate mode (at
least occasionally) and VirtualFulls, stay away from incrementals
forever.
3. I also recommend using the Bacula "virtual" autochanger for disk
based systems. It is very robust and simple, but there is not a lot
of documentation on it.
Best regards,
Kern
On 06/08/2014 05:00 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> So I'm starting from scratch again with my bacula config. I
thought I'd
> try to get some pointers before I dive in head first again.
>
> My setup consists of multiple virtual machines. Some over
GigE, some
> over an ADSL connection (6000/800kbit). My aim is to transfer
as little
> as possible over the ADSL connection - but enough to be able
to restore
> if required.
>
> I would like to use some local disk storage (say 40Gb), and
have the
> rest go to a removable external eSATA drive. I'm thinking
this could
> mainly be done via job migration when the internal storage
starts to get
> full.
>
> As some insight, my current setup has ~167 daily incremental
backups and
> has used under 11Gb of space on the 'on disk' volumes. The
amount of
> data changed per day isn't really huge.
>
> Some more specific questions:
> 1) I want to try and avoid vchanger and use something that
can use the
> eSATA drive properly - grow the number of volumes
automatically to fill
> the entire eSATA drive. Bonus points for being able to just
plug in a
> new eSATA drive and expand further.
>
> 2) From my previous posts, I heard that daily incrementals
forever may
> be a bad idea - the whole job based backup vs the file based
backup that
> I'm used to with TSM. What would be the suggested route for
backups
> being done? I obviously don't want to do Full backups over
the ADSL
> connection every week / month.
>
> 3) I'm starting from scratch with Bacula v7 and all systems
are a
> mixture of RHEL6 and Fedora 20. Are there any gotchas I
should be aware
> of straight up?
>
> 4) Any general comments? :)
>
>
>
>
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