Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] do a backup to 2 different disks

2008-09-05 14:43:15
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] do a backup to 2 different disks
From: "John Drescher" <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: lists <mr.astral AT gmx DOT net>, bacula-users <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 14:43:10 -0400
> i wanna know if its possible to have bacula backup my data to 2 disks on
> the same machine? I have no working raid controller and not really
> enough money to buy adaptec cards or stuff like that, so i need the
> cheap version ;)
>
You could use the software raid that is built in to linux. I have 15TB
+ of linux software raid 6 here at work scattered on 8 to 10 servers
and it works very well with any recent hardware. Expect less than 10%
CPU usage for the raid on a 2GHz single core. No special controllers
needed just the kernel driver and mdadm.

>
> Im thinking about backing up to /dev/hda & /dev/hdb at the same time or
> make another backup from the first backup (for better speed performance)
>

Yes you can do this. You need 2 different storage devices and if you
want to do simultaneous backups you need  to enable concurrency.

John

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