On 19.10.2011 16:44, Johnston, James C. (GRC-RXP0) wrote: > I’m trying to back up a bunch of computational data – about 16 – 18 TB > at the moment. I’ll be backing a single fileserver up to a ~36 TB RAID > array connected to the server via fiber channel. > > > I’m considering how often I do a Full backup since even with fiber > channel the backup is going to take a long time. The typical Full on the > first weekend of the month, Differential on the other weekends and > Incrementals every night seems like a lot. > > One plan I’m looking at is a Full backup quarterly – starting at 21:01 > am on the first Saturday after Dec 1^st , March 1^st , June 1^st , and > September 1^st .
I've splitted a 20TB backup into many jobs. I run incrementals between the full-backup jobs. taking the full and waiting for it to complete would take way too long without backing up the new data. - Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users