Take a directory, dump it to tape, and it will live forever (roughly 5-10 
years) on tape.  And the copy on disk will be deleted.  But if needed, we could 
pull the copy back from tape.  We could possibly write 2 copies to tape for 
redundancy.

I already use bacula to protect over 100TB of spinning disk.  But i have 
multiple TB of data that my users "might" want to use again, but most likely 
they don't need it.

Does that help?


On Jan 11, 2010, at 8:22 PM, Dan Langille wrote:

> Thomas Wakefield wrote:
>> Is there any support in Bacula for doing archiving?  I have some data i want 
>> to offload to tape, and i am wondering if bacula can help.
> 
> What do you consider archiving to be?  As opposed to backup?
> 
> In short, what are your expectations?


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