Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Full and Incremental backup to different location

2010-04-23 09:19:38
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Full and Incremental backup to different location
From: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:17:17 +0100
>>>>> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:14:10 +0200, Matija Nalis said:
> 
> One somewhat unrelated question; is it possible to do the following
> using the new scheme ?
> 
> - backup daily incremental in pool Pool-Daily
> - backup weekly differential in pool Pool-Daily
> - backup feb-dec once a month full in pool Pool-Monthly
> - backup once a year (jan) full in pool Pool-Yearly
> 
> 
> What we're trying to do is extend standard backup policy (daily=inc,
> weekly=dif, monthly=full) with an full backup which would go once a
> year in a separate pool (and would have a very long rentention like
> 15+ years, or even never expire but get larger and larger) in order a
> have a very coarse historical archive (something like "offline"
> www.archive.or )
> 
> Or is the old scheme with pool being specified in Schedule still the
> only/prefered way to acomplish that ?

I don't think there is a better way with schedules -- I have something similar
with weekly and monthly full backups.

An alternative would be to backup to Pool-Monthly in January as well and then
copy the jobs into Pool-Yearly, but that requires multiple storage devices.

__Martin

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