Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Copying backup "On the fly"

2009-10-15 10:22:46
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Copying backup "On the fly"
From: Mike Eggleston <mikeegg1 AT mac DOT com>
To: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:53:23 -0500
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, John Drescher might have said:

> > I'm using bacula for servers but the problem is that both servers and where
> > bacula runs are on the same room. I'd like to know how to implement a
> > duplication of the data bacula stores in order to put a copy on another
> > location (via internet). Of course it is not possible to copy simply the
> > backup file because it is too big.
> 
> One suggestion. Make the volumes smaller. 1 to 10GB should be fine.
> Then use rsync (possibly run from a cron job) to send the volumes
> offsite.
> 
> John

My bacula setup is pulling the remote files to on disk volumes that
are 5GB each. I have a final job that looks for what disk volumes have
changed from the previous backup and writes those volumes to tape.

I could use rsync(1) to copy the 5GB volumes to another server and did
consider copying those disk volumes over the net to a remote location. I
decided against this approach as the rsync(1) would consume my entire
bandwidth. Not a bad solution for incrementals, but not good for fulls.

Mike

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