Phil,
Thanks very much! I will try it out asap.
All best,
Olle
On Oct 2, 2010, at 1:16 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 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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