[CentOS] [SOLVED] Re: Backup Suggestion on C7

Wed Oct 12 16:47:20 UTC 2016
Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net>

I'm sure some people will tell me I'm doing it wrong but I always just 
use rsync for backups, automated in cron.

I may be doing it wrong but it always works.

On 10/12/2016 07:14 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
> Hi list,
> I've solved my problem.
>
> I've understood some concepts.
>
> I've defined bacula-sd multiple devices with different Media Type and
> configured different storage directives in director.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>> 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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