Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestions of backups

Your problem is quite complex and I think it is not solvable in one 
forum thread. You will need to split jobs in more Storages, one of them 
can be the DVD. I advice not to have all backups in one file which grows 
forever, you should setup some cykling policy. You will need to study 
more about that from the reference manual. Be sure it can take few days 
or weeks until you are satisfied.
Marek

Jose Perez napsal(a):
> Hi people:
> 
> I'd like to get some suggestions from you about the best way to deal
> with my backups managed with Bacula:
> 
> I'm running Bacula 3.0.2 with a unique Volume as a file disk, all
> backups are stored under some directory in a huge file (now is about
> 400 GB of size). I have this configuration because I don't have any
> tape device. But my Bacula box has 6 SATA disks configured with
> software RAID 1 having a total Logical Volume of 1.5 TB.
> 
> I'd like to have only mensual copies of data burned on DVDs... but my
> current Volume is about 400 GB. My question is:
> 
> How could I burn on DVD only the most important 4 GB data of the
> month? I was thinking about burn some Full Backups to some DVDs and
> some incremental backups to other ones, but I don't know how to
> instruct bacula to burn to a DVD just specific jobs. I even tought
> restoring specific Jobs to some directories then make an ISO image of
> them and finally burn them... is this fine?
> 
> It's the first time I have a Bacula on production so my experience
> with managing backups isn't so good. Does anybody here has a File Disk
> Volume as me? How do you deal with backups stored in external storage
> (DVD, External Hard Disks, etc)?
> 
> I would appreciate some ideas to get started with an appropiate
> procedure of storing backups.
> 
> Thanks
> 
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