Bacula

LTO-4 Backup with Bacula

LTO-4 Backup with Bacula

Intro With Archlinux32 reaching some terabytes of data to backup I needed something “modern”, like a tape. Now, big tapes like LTO-8 are close to unaffordable, LTO-4 drives and tapes on the other hand can be aqcuired on the cheap. They get thrown out of servers rooms at the moment. An LTO-4 tape can take 800 GB uncompressed data and the drive can be bought on Ebay for 200 to 300 CHF.
Offsite Backup with Bacula

Offsite Backup with Bacula

Intro Into the category of “What can I possibly do useful with a Raspberry PI?” falls the idea of origanizing a backup server using the Bacula backup software. Details I use an old USB disk and a USB hub as external storage for the Bacula volume data and for the catalog (stored in PostgreSQL). For full-filling the off-site requirement the jobs are copied with a ‘Migration Job’ to an external FTP server.