Hi We currently only use bacula to backup our windows servers and the backup servers themselves. For all the *NIX boxes we use dirvish (www.dirvish.org) which is a rsync based set of perl scripts that sounds like what you want. It will maintain complete images of the target servers backup trees over time using the rsync hardlink feature. Basically you do an initial complete rsync of the target and then subsequent backups are done referencing the last good backup. If a file hasn't changed, it adds a hardlink from the previous copy, if it has changed, do a differential rsync using the previous copy as a reference to only shift the changes, if it's new, copy over the file, if its deleted don't put it in this tree.
I would use bacula for everything but I just don't have the room - the use of hardlinks save lots of space: Backing up 8 windows servers with bacula with 10 incremental daily's, 5 weekly differential's and 3 full monthly volumes uses 800GB. With dirvish, I have the last 15 full backups, the last month's 5 Friday full backups and the last 3 months first of the month Friday full backups for 73 servers using 2TB YMMV of course Cheers Brenden -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kristian Rink Sent: Saturday, 31 March 2007 2:15 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] disk backup "without volumes"? Folks; maybe the subject sounds strange, nevertheless: In our environment, we use to do backups (a) from several servers to a machine having a large disk array attached using rsync and (b) from there to tape using afio+wrapper-scripts. So far, this works well, and the reason for making use of this technology is that people around here want to have the backed-up repository available as a read-only SMB share just in case it is ever needed (actually, it sometimes is). After playing around with it for a while, I've grown to like bacula as a distributed backup solution as it drastically eases maintaineance effort taken to rsync files from all over to one central place. However, using bacula to store a backup to disk always leaves me with a backup folder containing bacula "volume files" which are inaccessible to an arbitrary user (who shouldn't be meant to mess with the bconsole). My question: Is there a way to set up the bacula-storage to dump files to a disk into a file system structure that could be shared using SMB, NFS, whatever? How can I achieve this effect, or is it not currently supported / thought of? Any reading pointers on that? Thanks in advance and bye, Kristian -- Dipl.-Ing.(BA) Kristian Rink * Software- und Systemingenieur planConnect GmbH * Strehlener Str. 12 - 14 * 01069 Dresden fon: 0351 4657770 * mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.pm-planc.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDE V _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
