Re: [Bacula-users] backup rotation, recycling and getting bacula to reuse a tape
2010-02-24 20:24:51
Any comments? Am I completely off base?
David
On Tuesday 23 February 2010 07:22:59 pm David Koski wrote:
> Please comment on this strategy. Does it look reasonable? Any caveats?
>
> I have installed bacula and configured the director, storage and file
> daemons. My strategy is to have two pools, one for weekly full backups and
> one for daily incrementals. The hardware is a Exabyte Storageloader with
> 10 slots. The objective is to have a system that a non-technical person can
> change the tapes in without the intervention of an administrator so
> bconsole is not an option for the routine. As such, I have created a
> script to run before a backup:
>
> 1 #!/bin/bash
> 2
> 3 # update slot information in case of tape change
> 4 # use this before doing a backup
> 5
> 6 # David Koski
> 7 # Mon Feb 22 20:39:17 PST 2010
> 8
> 9 /usr/bin/bconsole -c /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf <<EOF
> 10 update slots storage=Library
> 11 EOF
> 12
>
> All of the weekly tapes will have been added to the weekly pool. The
> retention will be set to a minimum, perhaps one day or less so they can
> always be overwritten if the operator (non-technical user changing tapes)
> chooses. This is more like the previous backup program they are used to
> (BRU) which has no concept of retention and is consistant with customer
> expectations. The full backups will always take two tapes and there will
> be two slots allocated to the full backup.
>
> The Daily backup tapes will occupy four slots and remain in the library
> with a retention time of maybe a week. They will probably hold two weeks
> if dailys are appended each day. It is expected that no user intervention
> is needed for daily backups and they will be recycled by bacula as needed.
>
> Thank you for your input.
>
> Regards,
> David Koski
> david AT kosmosisland DOT com
>
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