Re: [Bacula-users] managing offsite tapes

Hello Robert,

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Robert A Threet <robert3t AT netzero DOT net> wrote:

On my old Netbackup system, I had enough time to run a full backup on Saturday, then I'd run a full backup on Sunday which I would use for all the incrementals & restores during the week. The Saturday tapes would be pulled Monday & sent offsite.

I like the default Bacula setup for Monthly Fulls, Weekly Diffs & daily incrementals. I have a lot more systems to back up and I can see I won't have time to do things the way I did. However, I still want to pull tapes and send some offsite.

You can do the same with Bacula. There are a few ways to do that. You can have the two full backups on saturdays and sundays. But if you do not need two fulls, one on saturdays and the other on sundays, you can schedule a copy job on sundays to make a full copy of the saturday backup and send the sunday tape offsite.

How are you guys doing this? Do you create Pools and send certain tapes offsite, etc?

Also, specifically, how do kick tapes out of a Dell TL4000? Do you unmount the tapes in Bacula and then just use MTX commands? I haven't seen anything covering this in anything online or in any of the books.

It is not necessary to run mtx commands. You just need to configure the DELL TL4000 as an autochanger device. From bconsole you can do an umount and the tape will be placed back into the slot. Then you can kick the tape off the TL.

Best regards,

Ana

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