Re: [Bacula-users] virtual baculas

On 10/01/10 18:51, Olle Romo wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm a newbie here and I'd just like to get someone's thoughts on this -
> 
> I want to run several rotating backups sets of the same files; one set  
> of tapes at home and one set at work and then rotate and keep  
> incrementing on both.
> 
> What I'm doing (and it's working ok) is I use several virtual machines  
> for Bacula dir (Debian on a Mac Pro in Parallels). This way I can have  
> multiple sets of tapes backing up the same set of files.
> 
> I suspect there is a more elegant way to accomplish this from a single  
> Bacula dir...?

Olle,
If I understand CORRECTLY what you're trying to do, there's a much
simpler solution.  Just create two (or more) Jobs per Client, each set
of Jobs using its own Pool.  So, for example, let's say you have Pool1,
Pool2, Pool3, and Pool4; Client1 has Jobs Client1-Job1, Client1-Job2,
Client1-Job3, and Client1-Job4, all sharing the same Fileset.  Your
Schedule would be written so that in week 1, it runs all the *-Job1
jobs, in week 2 it runs all the *-Job2 jobs, etc, etc.

This will allow one Director to retain multiple completely independent
sets of backup media and backup histories for each Client, while still
(I believe) allowing deduplication or replicated File records in the
Catalog, so your Catalog would be significantly smaller than if you had
four separate Catalogs on four "virtual" Directors.


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