Dan Langille wrote:
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Dan Langille - http://langille.org/


Yes, I can probably upgrade. I am reconfiguring most of it anyway so I might as 
well while I am at it. 

Good writeup. Would you recommend that I use copy over migration? I have space 
to store up to 7 days of backups on the server hard drive. If I understand it 
correctly, I can copy those jobs to tape and keep them for an additional 7 days 
if I want (for a total of 14 days) and still restore individual files from them 
even after the initial 7 days is up and the volumes on the server have been 
recycled/purged, correct? The big benefit that I would see to copying is that 
if I need to restore anything within the first 7 days I can simply restore it 
from the server without having to go get a tape and load it. What job completes 
faster, a migration or a copy?

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