Rowdy wrote:
> I do a full backup on Saturday mornings (1am) creating a new volume for
> each server, then a differential backup at 1am all other days for each
> server, appending to each respective full backup volume.
>
> Bacula shouldn't mind about doing a full backup onto one drive (one
> volume), and then differentials onto a different drive, but I believe it
> would necessitate creation of a different volume. Bacula will probably
> automatically create a new volume, if so configured, if it discovers
> that the volume used for the full backup is not there.
>
> My pools are configured to auto-label volumes to include server name +
> date/time:
>
> LabelFormat = "aardvark_${Year}${Month:p/2/0/r}${Day:p/2/0/r}"
OK, I'll try and get something similar working tomorrow if I can.
> One other hint: (many) tape drives automatically compress data, however
> hard drives do not. My FileSet sections have this:
>
> Include = signature=MD5 compression=GZIP {
>
> The 'compression' part saves quite a lot of disk space.
I've already got both those options on already, thankfully! :)
Cheers,
Tony
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