We run full backups every Friday then another set of fulls on Saturdays.
The full backups done Friday are then sent off site Monday.

                                -Jason


On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 14:37 -0700, Hemant Shah wrote:
> 
> --- On Mon, 9/22/08, Mike Eggleston <mikeegg1 AT mac DOT com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Mike Eggleston <mikeegg1 AT mac DOT com>
> > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Sending tapes Off-site
> > To: "Robb Wagoner" <robb AT dcexp DOT net>
> > Cc: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> > Date: Monday, September 22, 2008, 2:50 PM
> > On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Robb Wagoner might have said:
> > 
> > > I want to send the monthly full backups off-site for
> > DR purposes. I
> > > also need to keep an on-site copy of the full backups
> > on-site in the
> > > event of non-DR restores.
> > > 
> > > My thoughts are to use either:
> > > 
> > > 1. bcopy. Keeping track of  the tapes that are used
> > for full backups
> > > and which of those have been duplicated.
> > > 2. Migration. Full backups are written to an Off-Site
> > Pool and
> > > migrated to an On-Site Pool.
> > > 
> > > I don't have adequate disk space to make one of
> > the pools file-based,
> > > which means that for either 1., or 2., I won't be
> > able to run any
> > > other jobs while the duplicating process (Migration or
> > bcopy) is
> > > running as both tape drives will be in use.
> > > 
> > > My inclination is to use Migration:
> > > 
> > > * Pool "Offsite" with 6 month retention
> > period; "Volume Use Duration"
> > > of a several days so that the jobs on a partially used
> > tape are
> > > migrated; "Next Pool" = "Onsite"
> > > * Pool "Onsite" with 1 month retention
> > period
> > > * Full backup jobs use pool "Offsite"
> > > * Migrate jobs from "Offsite" to
> > "Onsite"
> > > * Set Migration job priority lower than backup jobs so
> > that they are
> > > effectively done when nothing else is going on.
> > > 
> > >  I will then have to create a custom SQL query
> > (query.sql) to
> > > determine which tapes that are in pool
> > "Offsite" & in the library &
> > > have been fully migrated. These are the tapes that are
> > ready to be
> > > sent off-site.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I am wondering what others do for this. . .
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Robb
> > 
> > Hi Robb,
> > 
> > I have 2T of disk that I store all my backups on. My last
> > job of the
> > night copies the disk volumes that were modified to tape.
> > Each morning
> > I send the tape off site. I do fulls the first weekend of
> > each month
> > and am currently writing about 12 DLT 4 tapes.
> > 
> > I'm not using migration.
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
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> If you have 2 tape drives, you can also use "dd" command to copy data from 
> one tape to another.
> 
> 
> Hemant Shah
> E-mail: hjrrs AT yahoo DOT com
> 
> 
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