>>>>> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:07:52 -0400, Ryan Novosielski said:
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> Adrian Moisey wrote:
> | Hi
> |
> |>> I have bacula setup to do a full backup to disk on a sunday and
> |>> incremental ever other day of the week to disk.
> |>>
> |>> I would like to now store backups to tape and move them offsite.
> How do
> |>> I "copy" the full backup to tape? I read that I must use migration[0].
> |>>
> |>> is that correct?
> |>>
> |>> Can someone give me pointers?
> |>>
> |>> Thanks,
> |>> Adrian
> |>>
> |>> [0] http://bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Migration.html
> |> The documentation should do it, though you probably want rel-manual not
> |> dev-manual. AFAIK, you have to have two pools and you run migration jobs
> |> to move jobs from one pool to another (and one media type to the other).
> |>
> |> Perhaps you could try getting started and ask for help if you get stuck
> |> somewhere?
> |
> | Thanks.
> |
> | Will migrate move or copy the data?
> | From that page:
> | The term Migration, as used in the context of Bacula, means moving data
> | from one Volume to another. In particular it refers to a Job (similar to
> | a backup job) that reads data that was previously backed up to a Volume
> | and writes it to another Volume. As part of this process, the File
> | catalog records associated with the first backup job are purged. In
> | other words, Migration moves Bacula Job data from one Volume to another
> | by reading the Job data from the Volume it is stored on, writing it to a
> | different Volume in a different Pool, and then purging the database
> | records for the first Job.
> |
> | Sound to me like it moves it and doesn't copy it
>
> Correct. Copying is currently a problem for restoring (eg. which copy do
> we restore from when a restore is requested).
Yes, that could be a problem. I think there is an undocumented "copy" job
type though, which is like migrate but doesn't delete the old db records.
__Martin
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