[Bacula-users] How to setup Pools/Volumes?

2009-11-14 Thread Bundschuh, Philipp
Hello dear Bacula-Users, I just setup bacula on Debian 5.0; all deamons are running fine, but I have some difficulties with understanding pools, volumes, etc. I want to do a full backup once a week and a differential backup the other 6 days. On the 8th day, another (=second) full backup and so

Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude not working the way I expected

2009-11-14 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, 14.11.2009 02:55, Dan Langille wrote: Glynd wrote: I have obviously not understood how exclude works. :-) You're not rhe first there - excludes are a bit difficukt to understand, I guess. I have the following in my fileset resource but all that is backed up are the directories

[Bacula-users] Unmount command (Re: eSATA / USB disks as media for Bacula)

2009-11-14 Thread Timo Neuvonen
Mike Ruskai than...@earthlink.net kirjoitti viestissä news:4afb06f0.1090...@earthlink.net... Just use Media Type = File in your director Storage definition block, which changes volumes from individual tapes to individual files. Then use something like this in your storage daemon

Re: [Bacula-users] Using bacula for local and cloud backup

2009-11-14 Thread Kevin Keane
You could take the approach of append to incremental file every night but I don't think it would help you, and actually would hurt. Your idea of using small, 100 MB volumes to encourage rsync to work more efficiently really is redoing something that bacula already does for you. If you simply

Re: [Bacula-users] Unmount command (Re: eSATA / USB disks as media for Bacula)

2009-11-14 Thread Michael FIG
Timo Neuvonen timo-n...@tee-en.net writes: Does anyone have any more up-to-date information of this disk unmount issue? IMHO, mount/unmount are very different operations for disk and tapes. For tapes, it is acceptable to leave them mounted in the drive, because a rm -rf / won't touch them.

Re: [Bacula-users] Unmount command (Re: eSATA / USB disks as media for Bacula)

2009-11-14 Thread Timo Neuvonen
Michael FIG mich...@fig.org kirjoitti viestissä news:87d43kn9qm@fire.fig.org... Timo Neuvonen timo-n...@tee-en.net writes: Does anyone have any more up-to-date information of this disk unmount issue? IMHO, mount/unmount are very different operations for disk and tapes. For tapes, it

Re: [Bacula-users] How to setup Pools/Volumes?

2009-11-14 Thread terryc
Bundschuh, Philipp wrote: I want to do a full backup once a week and a differential backup the other 6 days. On the 8th day, another (=second) full backup and so on... My problem is, that I have only 100GB Backup Space (mounted via NFS), so that I have to overwrite the first full backup