On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 AT frii DOT com> wrote:
> On 01/12/2010 12:46 AM, Ralf Gross wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I am just starting to use Bacula but one of my interests is
> using it to archive old data also.
>
> Is there any Bacula development policy regarding the compatibility
> of new versions of the software with old media?  Will I be able
> to restore from my Bacula-2.4.4 tapes or dvds with Bacula-6.3 in
> 2017?  (Obviously sans media degradation.)
>

For the 5 to 6 years we have used bacula (since 1.34.0) it has always
retained backward compatibility with its media.

John

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