Thanks Kleber (Brazillian?)

We will keep these copy tapes on another building (~5km away). There they have a reinforced safe that the company "Itaipu Binacional" already use for the same purpose.
Also, daily I have a specific Job with a RunAfter directive that saves the Catalog Database and Bacula config files on Dropbox (in the future, Amazon).

Back to my doubts, I read in the documentation that Bacula will "upgrade" my Copy Jobs to normal Backup Jobs if the original Backups were purged or recycled (just like you said). But still, If disaster happens and I restore all my Database from my daily backup, the "normal Backup Jobs" won't be actually recycled, just their tapes that won't be available..

In this case, all I need is to manually purge the original backups after I restore the Database?

Thanks again!

2011/3/30 Kleber Leal <kleber.leal AT gmail DOT com>

1. Yes. It's ok.
2. the bacula will do this for you. When you try to do restore, if the media has already recycled the bacula will get files from copy.
  What type of disaster you want to protect? If the boths tape drives was located in the same site you will not able do use it in fire or water incident.
  But, if the tapes are stored off-site you will able to recreate catalog with bscan with success. Some informations cannot be recreated with bscan, but probably all you need will be available on catalog.

Kleber

2011/3/30 Rodrigo Renie Braga <rodrigorenie AT gmail DOT com>

Hello again everyone.

Currently, I have 2 Tape Storages configured on my Bacula Server, but I only using one (which is enough to hold all my Full/Diff backups). I want to use the second Tape Storage to store Backups and take it's tapes somewhere else safe. I was thinking about using Copy Jobs, to copy every Full/Diff Backup ran on the first Tape Storage to the second.

My doubts are:

1. Is this the right solution for my problem? Or, at least, will it work?
2. In case of a (knock on wood) catastrophe and loose every tape on my storages (except the ones that are on a safe place), how do I restore from those tapes storing those Copy Jobs?

For now, that's all.

Thanks!

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