On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 10:45:28AM -0500, John Drescher wrote:

> > What I want is to have two sets of backup media -- a "daily" backup
> > media set that gets rotated all year long, and a "monthly" media set
> > that is a full backup that gets archived offsite.  Can this be done
> > under bacula with one set of jobs with different Run=, or does it need
> > to be more complex?  I've done this with AMANDA in the past, but I'm
> > not sure how easy it is in the Bacula world.
> >
> I believe for that you will need 2 independent jobs that share the
> same jobdef resource. The reason is that you do not want the daily
> incrementals to be based off the off site set. The next version of
> bacula will introduce a copy job that will allow you have bacula make
> additional copies of jobs that have completed. In this way you can
> make the full backup local and duplicate it for the remote storage.

I have a whole bunch of clients.  With what I understand of bacula so
far, I need a job for each client.  So if I'm understanding this, each
backup client will need three stanzas -- a client stanza, a job stanza
for the daily full or incremental, and a job stanza for the monthly
archive.  Is this correct?

I'm using a jobdef for each OS type.

> You are talking about tapes correct? If not you can just rsync the
> volume files to a remote site if you wanted and setup a longer
> retention period for local full backups.

Yes, tape.

- Morty

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