On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:05:13PM +1000, Rowdy wrote: > Hi Tony, Hey Rowdy, thanks for your reply.
> I am running Bacula under FreeBSD and backing up about 6 servers to 120G > hard drives mounted in an external USB enclosure. One drive is in the > enclosure, the other (only two drives) is in the safe. Excellent - someone else who's worked this out before me! :) > There is no problem as the operating system simply mounts the drive > under, in my case, /usb, so as long as something is mounted there Bacula > can write it's backup files in the right place. > > Once or twice the USB device was not mounted properly, and without > anything mounted to /usb the backup files ended up in the /usb directory > in the root filesystem, which quickly filled. The server is used only > for Bacula, so no harm was done. Sure, that sounds good. I'll have to work out how to get Debian to automount the drives, but I don't think that will be beyond me. (Famous last words!) > I set the volume lifetime to 7 days and/or update all volume stati to > 'Used' when changing the drive over each week, so Bacula creates a new > volume each week on whichever drive happens to be attached. Excellent, I'll have a browse through the manual and see if I can work out how to do that. Quick question - do you perform full backups every time, or just incrementals? I was planning on full backups once a week and incrementals / differentials during the week. But I'm worried about having the same drive out and in use all week incase of theft / fire. Is Bacula able to cope with just swapping the drives about, i.e. performing a differential backup when the full backup is on a different drive? > I have one backup file per server, and one for the catalog, all written > to the HDD in the USB enclosure. This is not necessarily the most ideal > situation, sometimes it is preferable to write the catalog backups to > another device or even another server, but for me it seems to work. Excellent, that makes me feel more confident! Thanks for your advice, Tony ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
