> If you really, really, really want to keep only one volume, you can find > out how in the manual. But honestly, you're better off with even a RAID0 > array (!!) on your backup server if that gives you room for two backup > sets, rather than just trying to have one. Better again, buy two more > disks and use RAID 5.
We already have our server set to Raid 0 and want external backups, so we can alternate the drives to take home. I think I am just going to get 2 external HDD, each 1.5 or 2 TB, and plan on having 2 volumes each. > If your file set is fairly static in nature - it's only added to, so > there's not much "churn" in old files - you can instead take a single > full backup manually, and then do daily incrementals thereafter, > consolidating them into differentials say weekly. You never need to > replace the full backup. However, this only works IF: > > - You don't generally delete files; and > - *YOU TEST YOUR BACKUPS REGULARLY TO MAKE SURE THE FULL BACKUP > VOLUME IS UNDAMAGED AND READABLE*. so what's the benefits of using a diff if I have all the increments? The diff seems like it will only do a diff from the full not another diff, is that correct? I was thinking Full + Incremental for 3 months. Initially I was thinking Full + Inc. Tue-Sun then a Diff on Mondays, but I didn't see any benefit from doing a diff on a weekly basics. If the diff was doing a diff of the diff/full then it would make more sense. Thanks for you feed back +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by ikkysle...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users