On 12/20/2010 7:26 PM, infosyst wrote:
> I want to setup migration and need some thoughts on the best way to configure 
> things in order to achieve what I want.
>
> I have a backup server running bacula 2.4.4. It runs backups over the network 
> for 9 different servers and stores them to hard disk. I run a single full 
> backup once a week and differential backups every night the rest of the week 
> in a 7 day cycle.

If you can upgrade.  That is nearly 2 years old.

>
> This is fine, but now I would like to migrate my backups to tape and store 
> the tape off-site each day. My thought is to move the hard drive backups to a 
> single day cycle and use the tapes for a 14 day cycle. That way I never have 
> to worry about disk space as there is always only a single day of backups 
> stored on the disks. This also means that the previous nights backups are 
> stored securely off-site as soon as they are migrated to tape.
>
> So basically what is the best configuration for doing this? My biggest 
> challenge is configuring the Pools/Volumes/Jobs in a layout that is ideal for 
> this setup. How should I approach that? Or should I be taking a different 
> approach to this?

I just wrote: http://www.freebsddiary.org/bacula-disk-to-tape.php

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