On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Ian Levesque wrote:

> I'm curious about using Bacula in a slightly different way than it was
> apparently intended. We have large directories of data that need to
> periodically be moved offline to tape. I've got a Scalar 100 with two
> LTO2 drives. I wouldn't be doing incremental/differential backups, or
> scheduled backups in any way. At first, I was using a shell script
> that wrapped around tar. Since my archives often need to span tapes
> and sometimes many tapes, it was becoming very difficult to manage. I
> think a solution like Bacula is *mostly* right for my needs, but my
> question is whether anyone on list has an installation similar to mine
> and can offer some management advice. How do you configure your jobs
> and schedules when it's just a bunch of one-off archives?

I just use manual scheduling (nothing specified), a special pool
(archives) and kick the jobs off manually.

Even if the archive job entries are lost from the database you can still
effect a restore using bacula's manual tools.

AB




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