[Bacula-users] Bacula Full/Inc Questions (Noob)

2010-04-19 Thread ikkysleepy
Er, eek?!? I was mentioning RAID 0 as an absolute last resort can't-afford-anything-else option. You realize that RAID 0 *masively* increases the chance of total loss of data across the entire array if one drive develops a fault, right? It's not just chance_of_disk_failure * n

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Full/Inc Questions (Noob)

2010-04-17 Thread mehma sarja
Ikky, Network backup. Mehma === On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:32 PM, ikkysleepy bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: mehma sarja wrote: Your experience will vary, I am used to seeing 20 GB/hour with batch processing and compression turned on. Lots of small files - so heavy database usage

[Bacula-users] Bacula Full/Inc Questions (Noob)

2010-04-16 Thread ikkysleepy
mehma sarja wrote: Your experience will vary, I am used to seeing 20 GB/hour with batch processing and compression turned on. Lots of small files - so heavy database usage on a store of about 750 GB. I'd suppose you would see your job done in 10 hours. Is this for a network backup or

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Full/Inc Questions (Noob)

2010-04-16 Thread Craig Ringer
On 17/04/2010 3:30 AM, ikkysleepy wrote: 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

[Bacula-users] Bacula Full/Inc Questions (Noob)

2010-04-14 Thread ikkysleepy
1) When making a Full backup, does this replace the expired backup or will this create a new Volume on the drive? Depends on your pool configuration. In most setups it'll recycle an older volume that's outside its retention period. See the bacula documentation. I guess I am

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Full/Inc Questions (Noob)

2010-04-14 Thread mehma sarja
Your experience will vary, I am used to seeing 20 GB/hour with batch processing and compression turned on. Lots of small files - so heavy database usage on a store of about 750 GB. I'd suppose you would see your job done in 10 hours. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:33 PM, ikkysleepy

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Full/Inc Questions (Noob)

2010-04-14 Thread Craig Ringer
On 15/04/2010 7:33 AM, ikkysleepy wrote: 1) When making a Full backup, does this replace the expired backup or will this create a new Volume on the drive? Depends on your pool configuration. In most setups it'll recycle an older volume that's outside its retention period. See the bacula

[Bacula-users] Bacula Full/Inc Questions (Noob)

2010-04-13 Thread ikkysleepy
Hi, I have two external backup drives that I want to incorporate using Bacula, but have some questions: 1) When making a Full backup, does this replace the expired backup or will this create a new Volume on the drive? 2) Can you force the Full backup to expire on a weekend? 3) Will

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Full/Inc Questions (Noob)

2010-04-13 Thread Craig Ringer
On 14/04/10 03:53, ikkysleepy wrote: Hi, I have two external backup drives that I want to incorporate using Bacula, but have some questions: 1) When making a Full backup, does this replace the expired backup or will this create a new Volume on the drive? Depends on your pool