Hi All,
I plan to use bacula to back up Windows machines, a mix of Server 2003 and Server 2008. My plan is as follows:
1 – run the grandfather, father, son rotation scheme. I will have a full backup at the start of the month, then incremental every day, diffs on a Saturday
2 – Once the month is over, I will copy the full backup volumes onto a tape drive machine to be written to tape (not using bacula to write to tape, but a separate machine which I have connected to a tape drive) The reason for not connecting
the tape drive directly to the bacula machine is because I have run out of card slots so I will copy the volumes over to another machine and write to tape from there
My question is, which data exactly must I move to the machine connected to the tape drive to write to tape. Will just the volume be enough or must I also dump the catalog and copy the sql file over and write both to tape.
Is it possible to restore data from a full backup without the catalog/config files/bsr. Just the volume.
Also I am confused about retention periods. I want to only keep data for 1 month (over 1 month will be written to tape). Should my File retention be 31 days and the Job retention be the same?
Thanks in advance!
Regards
WaqarK
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