Op 4/04/2011 13:58, Michael A Baikov schreef:
> I have ~20 servers that i backup with bacula to file storage (mostly 
> incrementally). Now i want to write some of backups to tape, but as full 
> backups. How can i do this without performing extra jobs on the client and 
> without extracting all data to some directory on server and writing it to the 
> tape?
>
> Is there a way to repack from bacula incremental archives to something less 
> obscure like zip/tar on the fly?
>
You might want to look into Virtual Fulls.
http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_3_0_0.html#SECTION00870000000000000000

This is the only way I know of in bacula to "convert" a series of 
full-diff-incr backups into 1 new backup without contacting the client.

Kind regards,
Jeremy

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