[geeks] backup architecture

[Phil Stracchino]

On 01/21/10 21:46, der Mouse wrote:
>>> Hmm.  Is there any particular reason you have to do all the fulls at
>>> the same time?
>> Not really, but the way it works out, 80% to 90% of the full backup
>> set is the main server (babylon4), so spreading out the full backups
>> wouldn't really gain me anything.
> 
> Depends on how the space is spread out.  Does babylon4 have one big
> filesystems, or is its space more spread-out?

The lion's share of the data is one big filesystem on ZFS.  babylon4's
primary reason for existence is to be my NAS server.

> Even if you don't speed
> individual dumps up any, I'm thinking that two or three tape changes
> four hours apart twice or thrice a month might be significantly better
> than five or six once a month: two 8- or 12-hour days is often much
> better than one 16- or 20-hour day.
> 
> Or is Bacula incapable of doing different levels in a given run for
> different filesystems on the same host?  Surely not....

Well, you COULD set it up that way, if you used multiple Filesets.


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