> 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 have a 2 archive pools for this with no recycling. If I take
something offline completely I make sure that both archive pools have
1 full backup of whatever data. I do this by creating new jobs in
bacula specifically to archive each dataset I remove.

John

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