Author: Thomas Wakefield <twake AT cola.iges DOT org>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:32:54 -0500
Is there any support in Bacula for doing archiving? I have some data i want to offload to tape, and i am wondering if bacula can help. Thanks, Thomas Systems Administrator COLA/IGES -- This SF.Net em
What do you consider archiving to be? As opposed to backup? In short, what are your expectations? -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best
Author: Thomas Wakefield <twake AT cola.iges DOT org>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:51:00 -0500
Take a directory, dump it to tape, and it will live forever (roughly 5-10 years) on tape. And the copy on disk will be deleted. But if needed, we could pull the copy back from tape. We could possibly
Author: Ralf Gross <Ralf-Lists AT ralfgross DOT de>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:46:35 +0100
Thomas Wakefield schrieb: We have the same problems here. Large sets of data that might never be touched again. To backup this, I setup a second client entry for each of the server with a different r
I am just starting to use Bacula but one of my interests is using it to archive old data also. Is there any Bacula development policy regarding the compatibility of new versions of the software with
Author: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:38:55 -0500
For the 5 to 6 years we have used bacula (since 1.34.0) it has always retained backward compatibility with its media. John -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take ad
Author: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:43:51 -0500
I have a 2 archive pools for this with no recycling. If I take something offline completely I make sure that both archive pools have 1 full backup of whatever data. I do this by creating new jobs in
Author: Thomas Wakefield <twake AT cola.iges DOT org>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:37:40 -0500
Thanks for all the answers. Basically it sounds like bacula doesn't have anything for native archive support which is what i expected. So i will do something along the lines of what everyone else doe
I don't know how to reconcile your statements with the replies. What, specifically, is missing from what you've heard? -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advant
I think for the case of "archive files and remove from disk", then Bacula, can already handle it with an appropriate long retention times as described in the other posts. The file records will remai