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Hello all,

I have to configure a Bacula 2.0.3/Debian Etch so that it does two independent
backup schedules: the first has disk files as storage, the second has a DVD
unit. The backup policies should be:
* for disk files, full once, then incremental until there's space on disk
* for DVDs, full monthly, diff weekly, incremental daily.

The two backup methods should be independent of each other, so if a file
foobar.txt was modified during the last day, a copy of it should end up both
on disk files and on DVD next night. Moreover the incremental and
differential relations between backups must take into account only previous
backups on the same media type, so if foobar.txt was changed yesterday and
backed up on files last night but not on DVD, it should be backed up on DVD
next night even if no one touched it today (that is even if the most recent
version is altready backed up on a different media type). Maybe there is a
single word to say all those things toghether, only I don't know which is...

Now for the questions:
1. will I obtain that by simply defining schedules and jobs in bacula-dir.conf
that point to different storage daemons?
2. how do I tell "do incremental until there is space on disk"?

Thanks in advance,
Lucio.

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Virtual Bit di Lucio Crusca
via Isonzo, 5
10069 - Villar Perosa (TO)
http://virtualbit.sulweb.org

I'm a newbie, and, believing it was a newbie question, a few days ago I wrote:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=200706132220.36816.lucio%40sulweb.org&forum_name=bacula-users

However I've received no reply... ok, I realize this is a mailing list, not a
help desk service, but just out of curiousity: it's that no one
knows what to reply, or it's that the reply would be RTFM or the like but
everyone thinks my question isn't even worth that kind of reply?

Sorry for insisting, but I have no clue about how to search that in the docs.

Lucio.

--
Virtual Bit di Lucio Crusca
via Isonzo, 5
10069 - Villar Perosa (TO)
http://virtualbit.sulweb.org

Lucio Crusca schrieb:
I'm a newbie, and, believing it was a newbie question, a few days ago I wrote:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=200706132220.36816.lucio%40sulweb.org&forum_name=bacula-users

However I've received no reply... ok, I realize this is a mailing list, not a
help desk service, but just out of curiousity: it's that no one
knows what to reply, or it's that the reply would be RTFM or the like but
everyone thinks my question isn't even worth that kind of reply?

Sorry for insisting, but I have no clue about how to search that in the docs.

AFAIK there is no direct way to send the data to two storage daemons.
This was discussed a couple of times during the last months. Maybe the
new migration feature could be helpful.

Ralf

Ralf Gross wrote:
AFAIK there is no direct way to send the data to two storage daemons.
This was discussed a couple of times during the last months. Maybe the
new migration feature could be helpful.

Thanks for the reply. Can you point me to those messages in the archives? The
SF seach server seems to be out of order at this time, and I wouldn't know
what to search anyway.

Lucio.

Lucio Crusca schrieb:
Ralf Gross wrote:
AFAIK there is no direct way to send the data to two storage daemons.
This was discussed a couple of times during the last months. Maybe the
new migration feature could be helpful.

Thanks for the reply. Can you point me to those messages in the archives? The
SF seach server seems to be out of order at this time, and I wouldn't know
what to search anyway.

Try search the gmane archive.

http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bacula.user

Ralf