I am looking for some help in configuring my bacula setup. I have
read the docs, and tried several variations, but I keep getting caught
up on one thing or another, and it seems I need to start from the
beginning.
My basic goal is to keep two sets of backup media, A and B. At any
one time, one of those sets is on-site, while the other is off-site.
These should be rotated on a weekly basis. I wrote an alert script to
inform the admins to swap the media once a week.
My chosen backup storage mechanism is a pair of Iomega REV removable
hard disk drives, which I am calling 1 and 2. I have enough data to
backup that I cannot fit all of it on just one REV device, so I added
the second device.
One problem I ran into is that my "tapes" are not getting recycled.
Each REV device can hold about 34GB of data, so I split that up into
100 "tapes" of 340MB each. However, bacula will keep using new
"tapes" until the REV device is full, and not reuse older "tapes".
Another problem is that the Storage Director needs to be stopped and
restarted when I swap the media for the weekly rotation. Is there any
way around that? I wrote a script called "conditional-mount.sh" which
looks to see if the admin had swapped media or if the media was not
mounted, which would do the Unix mounting work, and then restart the
bacula-sd process.
Is there any way to auto-detect which set (A or B) is in the REV
drive? The only way I've come up with is to declare a date-based
method, which seems inelegant to me.
I've posted my bacula configuration files here:
http://dunhackin.org/~eisen/bacula-question/index.html
Thank you for any help!
Hal
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