Thomas Wakefield schrieb:
> 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.

We have the same problems here. Large sets of data that might never be
touched again. To backup this, I setup a second client entry for each
of the server with a different retention time (30y). After an archive
was backed up (with a dump of the DB) to tape I change the status of
the last tape from append to used and put all tapes in a safe.

Ralf

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