Thanks for all the answers.  Basically it sounds like bacula doesn't have 
anything for native archive support which is what i expected.  So i will do 
something along the lines of what everyone else does.



On Jan 12, 2010, at 9:43 AM, John Drescher 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 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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