Bacula

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Mikel Jimenez <mikel@...> wrote:
> Hello Jhon
> I have a question for you. I thansk you a lot your help and sorry for
> writing to your personal email, but I have to put this in production the
> Monday, and I think that it will be more direct sending you the email.
>
> My situation is that
> I have 2 TB RAID and about 50 clients to backup. I dont want have unusable
> or no desirable information. For example for normal clients, I dont want to
> have history of more than 3 weeks.
>
> I listen to your suggestion of differential backups and I implement in my
> configuration.
>
> My configuration is veryyy long, and I know that is a great effort for you,
> but i would thanks you a lot if you watch it. I need  expert eyes!!
>
> My organization is Irontec. Some serves are in LAN, others in Internet
> (4-5).
>
> The other part are the clients.
> We have 3 departaments: dev (development), sistemas (systems), centralitas
> (voip-asterisk).
>
> I divide these departaments in different file devices:
>
> /var/ironbackup/backups/irontec
> /var/ironbackup/backups/sistemas
> ....
>
> I have configured too /var/ironbackup/backups/$departament2 for have the
> capability for doing more simultaneous backups.
>
> I want for clients the snapshot (full) of current month and 2 more, and for
> irontec the current and 3 more.
>
> My mayor dude are volume retentions, job retentions, file retentions.
>
> I am going to work at home this weekend with this, so thanks for your time.
>
> Feel free to point out my mistakes.
>

After looking at your bacula config files (wow you did a lot of work
and planning) the only thing I see is in your filesets bacula normally
does not cross filesystems so some of your Excludes are not necessary.

http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html

John