Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to remote location

2010-06-25 19:42:09
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to remote location
From: "James Harper" <james.harper AT bendigoit.com DOT au>
To: "Massimiliano Perantoni" <massimiliano AT perantoni DOT net>, <bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 09:39:33 +1000
> 
> Hi!
> I'm going to plan a remote backup between two places in my company
> that are connected with 10Mbps connectivity. I need to backup, to be
> sure I will not have problems for disaster recovery, all the data in
> "location A" to "location B". Up to the moment we have a local backup
> working like a charm with bacula, the matter is the remote backup; we
> have 4TB of data and growing and we calculated that we would spend a
> lot of our time and bandwidth doing the backup, so we would like to
> create a first full backup of "location A" (maybe yearly) to be sent
> to "location B", where we would just do the incremental ones: the
> great matter is that we would like to do it as automatically as
> possible: the matter is that for what I understood up till now is that
> bacula works on job names, not on backupped files, so that if I backup
> everything with a job, a different job on the same fileset would start
> with a full backup.
> 
> How to solve this problem?
> 

A few others have already given some tips, I'll just add that if you use
Microsoft Exchange (you don't say if you are using Windows or not), it
has this nasty habit of insisting on a full backup every time a
Microsoft Exchange update is applied. (Symantec Backup Exec at one
client doesn't handle this gracefully and when the differential backup
is attempted it completely hangs the Exchange server and Backup Exec
requiring a restart of both!).

James


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