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Re: [Bacula-users] backing up shared storage?

2010-05-05 09:17:18
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backing up shared storage?
From: Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 09:14:53 -0400
On 05/05/10 08:16, Jakov Sosic wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I have a cluster with shared storage which is mounted only on one node
> at a time. Other node's don't have that partition mounted. I wonder,
> what is a way to backup a shared partition?
> 
> If I only include partition in filesets of all cluster nodes, that when
> storage is mounted on another node, incrementall will become full
> because in backup of that node, there aren't any files from those
> partition, because that partition was not mounted before... And I want
> to avoid that and possibly have only one backup job/location for those
> files.

This doesn't necessarily follow unless you're using accurate backup.
But it sounds as though the best approach here is to ensure that the
shared storage is mounted at a specific node when your backup runs.


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