Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Duplicating Disc Volumes

2009-09-05 13:41:51
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Duplicating Disc Volumes
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: "Joseph L. Casale" <JCasale AT activenetwerx DOT com>, bacula-users <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 13:38:39 -0400
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Joseph L. Casale
<JCasale AT activenetwerx DOT com> wrote:
> Is there a way in Bacula to output the stream destined to the media
> director to multiple clients for redundancy, or should I manage this
> at the OS level?
>
> I need to keep a 3 way replication of the backup volumes and if there
> is a way to let bacula manage this, it would simplify things for me.
>
> If not, I thought of using a end of backup script to trigger the replication
> so as not to impact the available IO on the server lengthening the backup
> time. With that in mind, and concurrent jobs set to 1, how do I know when
> the last backup actually ran? Does bacula provide some mechanism for this?
>

You can use rsync to mirror the volume files. You can even schedule
this in a bacula job so that the synchronization happens after all
other jobs. See how the catalog backup works for the idea.

John

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