[CentOS] Backup Suggestion on C7

[Alessandro Baggi]

Hi Martin,
this is the off-site backup. Each server is backupped also in farm.

Il 13/10/2016 22:24, J Martin Rushton ha scritto:
> I'm not a bacula expert, but have had 30+ years in the industry doing
> backups.  I'm a little concerned about what you are planning.  As I
> understand it you are going to be keeping just one copy of each machine
> on a disk attached to the server.  This will help if you loose the
> running disks (though it is hardly backup in depth), but what happens if
> you loose the server due to fire, flood, electrical problems, theft or
> even plain old dropping it?  In general you should aim for multiple
> backup copies; are you willing to bet the company's future on one
> untried copy?  You should ensure that the backup copies are held
> preferably off site, failing that in a separate building, or else in a
> secure fireproof strongbox.
>
> Start by assuming you come into work one day to find the building burnt
> out and collapsed.  Now work out how to rebuild your system on new kit
> on another site and you'll find that you define your backup needs.
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
> On 12/10/16 12:54, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
>> Hi list,
>> I'm building a backup server for 3 hosts (1 workstation, 2 server). I
>> will use bacula to perform backups. The backup is performed on disks (2
>> x 3TB on mdraid mirror) and for each hosts I've created a logical volume
>> with related size.
>>
>> This 3 hosts have different data size with different disk change rate.
>> Each host must have a limited sized resource and a reserved space. If a
>> server needs more space to perform backup, It must be enabled and
>> provisioned.
>>
>> My first solution was put each host pools on different logical volumes,
>> like:
>>
>> host1 -> lv1
>> host2 -> lv2
>> host3 -> lv3
>>
>> and store pools/volumes on specified storage daemon that uses a
>> specified device for each different hosts.
>>
>> host1 -> storage1 -> device_lv1
>> host2 -> storage2 -> device_lv2
>> host3 -> storage3 -> device_lv3
>>
>>
>>  Unfortunately, I can't define on bacula-sd.conf multiple storage
>> definition but only multiple devices. To use different storage I must
>> run 3 bacula-sd on same host (I can?), run a bacula-sd on a vm/host.
>> Ah, I must use only one physical server.
>>
>> With one single machine and the current state I can't use multiple
>> storage daemons.
>>
>> There are other ways to store host volumes on different devices?
>>
>> My second solution was, use only one storage daemon (on the same host)
>> with a single device LVM over mdraid, create pool for each hosts and
>> limit the size for each volumes on related pool.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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