> Hello fellow users, Hello Justin, > I will only use disk storage and S3 buckets, I do not own any tape drives. > > There are up to 10 FDs (Linux and macOS), one of the SDs runs on the same > machine as the Director and the SD which is going to write to the disks and to > the S3 bucket(s). The remote S3 bucket will also be implemented by myself > using > minIO.
Bacula can work with minIO, but you don't need. Bacula S3 Driver can write to any S3 compatible cloud. > The Linux FD running on the same host as the Dir and SD is going to have jobs > for: > -onsite SMB shares for Synology servers in a DMZ, so that I do not need to run > an FD in the DMZ which would need to reach into my LAN. > -diverse non-Bacula backups form diverse systems, such as ESXi ghettoVCB, > macOS > TimeMachine, onsite minIO S3 buckets used by Synology DSM HyperBackup GhetoVCB is a very well-intentioned, but extremely poor solution to perform VSphere VM backups in terms of performance and features. If you want a 100% open source solution, I would migrate to Proxmox. > Each backup job is intended to create 3 redundant “copies” (not meaning the > Copy > concept of Bacula) for safety reasons: > - Tier 1 (fastest): 1 to n internal SATA hard disk drives (ideally no manual > intervention when individual disks 1,.., n-1 fill up) > - Tier 2 (medium speed): 1 to m external USB hard disk drives (ideally no > manual intervention when individual disks 1,.., n-1 fill up) > - Tier 3 (slowest): 1 or more offsite S3 buckets implemented using minIO > Docker > container on Synology DSM I would use one Cloud Storage with the CacheRetention directive for tiers 1 and 3. External USB (ew!) can be a Bacula Copy Job or a completely different redundant Job with its own Full and partials chain (e.g. Job1-cloud; Job1-usb). > As I have the luxury of more than 1 drive per tier, I would like to > understand, > if it is possible to define a pool on top of more than one disk device (e.g. > using AutoChanger with disk devices instead of tape devices?), so that first > one device is used and if it is full, further volumes are automatically > written > to the next disk device (without the need for manual intervention). As for disks, I would just use LVM or any sort of RAID to present Bacula. More practical. Rgds. -- MSc Heitor Faria (Miami/USA) Bacula LATAM CIO mobile1: + 1 909 655-8971 mobile2: + 55 61 98268-4220 [ https://www.linkedin.com/in/msc-heitor-faria-5ba51b3 ] [ http://www.bacula.com.br/ ] América Latina [ http://bacula.lat/ | bacula.lat ] | [ http://www.bacula.com.br/ | bacula.com.br ] _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
