Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape-to-tape copy job?

2012-11-10 09:23:54
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tape-to-tape copy job?
From: Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>
To: Wolfgang Denk <wd AT denx DOT de>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:19:37 -0500
On Nov 10, 2012, at 7:25 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> Dear Dan,
> 
> thanks a lot for your reply.
> 
> In message <BB43BB6A-CD8A-41CD-B7C5-99F9FAE1E5E0 AT langille DOT org> you 
> wrote:
>> 
>> I can show you what I did with backup to disk, then copy to tape.
>> 
>> Copy from tape to tape is just repeating again.
>> 
>> http://www.freebsddiary.org/bacula-disk-to-tape.php
>> http://www.freebsddiary.org/bacula-disk-to-tape-via-sql.php
> 
> Thanks, that was really helpful.
> 
>>> - Pool / Next Pool settings: I can define a "TEMP" pool for the
>>> temporary disk copies, but I'd like to have both the old, original
>>> backups and their copies on the new media in the same (archive)
>>> pool.  How would I use this with "Next Pool"?
>> 
>> Next Pool indicates the pool that the jobs should be copied to. The
>> originals remain.
> 
> Can I overwrite thissetting, for example in the Job definition?

I think not, reading 
http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION002230000000000000000

But try it.

> The setup I'm targeting for now is this:
> 
> 1) Backup to disk
> 2) in somewhat larger intervals, copy the jobs to tape (for off-site
>   archival)
> 3) in somewhat shorter intervals, migrate the jobs to tape (for
>   regular storage)
> 
> For this to work, the pool for the jobs on disk would need two
> separate "next pool" seetings - one for the regular migration to tape,
> and another for for copying to the archive tapes.
> 
> Can this be done?

I don't know.

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


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