On Sep 22, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Eduardo Júnior wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
>
> I have the following policy on external backup:
>
> - The overall policy is: incremental Monday to Saturday, the first  
> Sunday of the month a full and the other end of a week differential.
> - It is done in an external hd
> - The data is passed to external hd weekly
>
> I'm only doing this "on hand", using scripts that simply copy the  
> volumes of hd where the backups are made to the external hd.
> And to make sure that the copy was successful, I simply restore  
> tests directly on the volume () and through the bscan.
>
> Is there a way to make sure that the copy will be ready for use if  
> an accident happens without that I need to do restores the above?


I recommend this:

Backup to local HDD.  Use RAID if you can.

rsync the local HDD to external HDD.  Move that HDD offsite, leaving  
your original Bacula Volumes right where Bacula expects them to be.

Does that fit in?
-- 
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/





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