For the Copy to Tape: 

Restoring:

Yes, it's possible recover data with only the Volume, you must use the bscan utility from Bacula to recreate the Catalog.

Retention:

I would use a minimum of two months Retention period for recovery the data easily from local Disk (if the disk space is not critical) and use Tape Storage (on second server) only for 'archive' purposes. 

All the info into Bacula Docs ! 

http://www.bacula.org/7.2.x-manuals/en/main/New_Features_in_7_0_0.html#SECTION00411000000000000000

http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/utility/utility/Volume_Utility_Tools.html#SECTION00270000000000000000

And more info:

http://www.pedroliveira.pt/bacula-tape-restore-without-database/

https://dan.langille.org

http://www.freebsddiary.org

Sorry for my rusty english...

Javier.

2015-10-28 17:24 GMT+01:00 Waqar Khan <waqar.khan AT hornbill DOT com>:

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

PGP: D1388321

 

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