In short what you are looking for is copy pools, which I do not believe are 
currently implemented, but on the project list. The workaround is to run a 
second full backup. Its not a great option but it works until the real method 
is implemented.

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From: bacula-users-bounces AT lists.sourceforge DOT net 
[mailto:bacula-users-bounces AT lists.sourceforge DOT net] On Behalf Of Gregg 
A. Discenza
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:35 AM
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Replacing Arcserve with Bacula, disk 
staging/spooling configuration

Pasi,

I faced an equivalent situation, where I wanted to have an offsite copy of
my
backups for disaster recovery, as well as an onsite copy for fast restores.

What I ended up doing was making two jobs/schedules/filesets for each client
I
was backing up.  The first job/fileset appends to whatever tape is in use
from
the autoloader for local restores, and the second job/fileset writes to the
standalone tape drive for offsite storage. I have 2 pools defined, default
and
offsite, and the system works well for me.

Since the two tape devices are on discrete channels, I can define concurrent
jobs, and backups have been stable for 2 months now.

Hope this helps,

-Gregg

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bacula-users-bounces AT lists.sourceforge DOT net]On Behalf Of Pasi
Kärkkäinen
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 10:13 AM
To: John Drescher
Cc: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Replacing Arcserve with Bacula,disk
staging/spooling configuration


On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 09:50:15AM -0400, John Drescher wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik AT iki DOT fi> wrote:
> > Hello list!
> >
> > I'm currently running Arcserve B2D2T (Backup to disk to tape)
configuration,
> > but I'm now in the process of migrating that setup to Bacula.
> >
> > I've been reading Bacula manuals about spooling and other options, but
I'm not
> > totally sure if Bacula supports "disk staging" (as Arcserve calls it) in
the
> > same way.
> >
> > Basicly I'd like to backup each client to hard disk, and then copy the
> > backups from the hard disk to tape autochanger in the end of the job.
> >
> > Arcserve allows restores being made from the disk.. if the backup is
still
> > being held on disk.. if not, then from the tape.
> >
> > Backups older than N days are being removed automatically from the disk
by
> > Arcserve.
> >
> Look at migration in the manual. You will need a very recent version
> of bacula for this to work. The two year old 1.38 that is considered
> stable on some linux distributions will definitely not work.
>

Thanks for your reply!

I'm running Bacula 2.2.8 on CentOS 5.1. Is that new enough?

I've been reading http://bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Migration.html but I'm
still wondering about a couple of things..

I'd like to have backups on _both_ disk (for fast restores) and
tape (for transporting them to a remote location) but it seems
migration in bacula moves backups instead of copying..

so I can't do fast restores from disk anymore after I've migrated my
backups to tape.. and basicly I'd need to copy to a tape immediately after
backup to disk ends..

Is there a way to automatically run migration job after main backup job
ends?

-- Pasi

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