Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger and barcode

2009-10-19 19:29:40
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger and barcode
From: Nicola Quargentan <nicola AT quargentan DOT com>
To: bacula-users <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:25:35 +0200
Jesper Krogh ha scritto:
>> But the use of pools on what for?    
>> Just for completeness I must save this data:
>>
>> 1) Oracle db (size unknown)
>> 2) 5-6 MySQL db (about 25 Gb)
>> 3) Some samba share, with office files (5Gb)
>> 4) An subversion reposity (size unknown)
>> 5) Mail server (size unknown)
>> 6) The configuration of 8 servers
>> 7) Other things that now I do not remember :)
>>
>> I should make a pool for each points?
> 
> No, you should make the pools reflect your retention times. If you wish
> to keep (which you most-likely will) your Full backups for longer time
> than your incrementals. Recycling of volumes is based on the
> "lastwritten" time of the volume.
> 
> I suggest:
> 
> Full-Poll => All full backups.
> Incremental-Pool => All incremental backups.
> Differential-Poll => All Differential backups.
> 
> You would then prefer to keep full backups for the "longest" period,
> Differentials for a "shorter" and "incrementals" for even shorter.
> 
> I our setup we keep Full for 1y, Differential for 1y and Incremental for
> 6m. This enables us to:
> 
> * restore any file with a days "granularity" for 6 months.
> * restore any file wiht a weeks "granularity" for 1 year.
> * - then we actually have an Archive Pool that week is backed up to ever
> 6 months that we keep forever.
> 
> If you then dont want to have a "open tape" for longer than a period,
> then you set "Max Use Duration" to that. Then after that period of time
> you can move it to a different location.
> 

> If your "retention times" change across above systems, then you most
> likely need more pools. But I would definately suggest just buying one
> more pack of tapes instead.

With this metode I'm unable to know where is my data in my volumes (only 
bacula know that).      
Ad absurdum I could end up finding a piece of data of single server 
stored in each of 24 tapes :O (IMHO).

I also read this tutorial:
http://www.bacula.org/fr/dev-manual/Backup_Strategies.html

But now I think to make a pool for each server, set
Maximum Volume Jobs = 1, and perform only incremental backups.

Thanks, Nicola.

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