Re: [Bacula-users] Add external drive rotation to existing backup regime?

2017-05-10 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 2017-05-10 05:44, Josip Deanovic wrote: > > I usually don't like the idea of rsyncing bacula volumes and although > an example where such approach would be acceptable probably exist I don't > think this is the case here because of the requirements that were set in > the initial post. I've a 'ca

Re: [Bacula-users] Add external drive rotation to existing backup regime?

2017-05-10 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/9/2017 7:11 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On 05/09/2017 05:21 PM, David Andrzejewski wrote: I've looked at vchanger, and I *think* that's what I need here. I don't know if you can combine vchanger and your zfs pool backups. I would think copy jobs may be a better fit for what you want. Vch

Re: [Bacula-users] Add external drive rotation to existing backup regime?

2017-05-10 Thread Josip Deanovic
On Wednesday 2017-05-10 11:17:41 Martin Simmons wrote: > If each USB hard disk is large enough to contain all of your backups, > then the simplest approach is to rsync the volumes from the server to > the USB disks. > > In the (hopefully unlikely) case where you need to restore from the USB > disk

Re: [Bacula-users] Add external drive rotation to existing backup regime?

2017-05-10 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 09 May 2017 22:21:59 +, David Andrzejewski said: > > I'm *relatively* new to bacula. I have a working bacula setup where I have a > bunch of machines backing up to a ZFS array on a server. This is working > well and without error, I've tested restores; everything seems > hunky-do

Re: [Bacula-users] Add external drive rotation to existing backup regime?

2017-05-10 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 05/10/17 00:21, David Andrzejewski wrote: > I've looked at vchanger, and I *think* that's what I need here. That's what I'm using. > I want to be sure that I can do complete restores even if the > server and on-site external drive is totally destroyed. Well, of course you'll test this bef

Re: [Bacula-users] Add external drive rotation to existing backup regime?

2017-05-09 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 05/09/2017 05:21 PM, David Andrzejewski wrote: > I've looked at vchanger, and I *think* that's what I need here. I don't know if you can combine vchanger and your zfs pool backups. I would think copy jobs may be a better fit for what you want. Although I'd be tempted to just cp the volume fil

[Bacula-users] Add external drive rotation to existing backup regime?

2017-05-09 Thread David Andrzejewski
I'm *relatively* new to bacula. I have a working bacula setup where I have a bunch of machines backing up to a ZFS array on a server. This is working well and without error, I've tested restores; everything seems hunky-dory. Basically, I do a full backup of each client every couple of weeks, dai