I'm very new to Bacula. I guess my question is, once I have the pool figured
out, what steps do I follow to tell Bacula to use a new tape when I create a
new Archive job for some files that need to be archived?
I have blank tapes in the Scratch pool that are labeled according to their
barcodes. If I create an Archive job and run it, won't it just append to
another tape that has space left for data? I'm confused about how this works.
I'm not sure how to do this.
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Simmons [mailto:martin AT lispworks DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 4:07 AM
To: drescherjm AT gmail DOT com
Cc: May, John; Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How to tell Bacula to use new tape for Archiving
>>>>> On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 21:43:08 -0500, John Drescher said:
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:11 PM, May, John <john.may AT fugrohorizons DOT com>
> wrote:
> > I frequently have to archive data off the server that should never expire.
> > I would like to archive this data onto a new tape, so the archived data is
> > the only thing on the tape. How do I tell Bacula to do this? I think it
> > has something to do with the Pools, so below is my bacula-dir.conf. I've
> > setup an Archive Pool along with some others, but haven't used them yet.
> >
> > Pool {
> > Name = "Archive"
> > Pool Type = Backup
> > Recycle = no
> > Auto Prune = no
> > Volume Retention = 30 years
> > Accept Any Volume = yes
> > Cleaning Prefix = CLN
> > }
> >
>
> Looks fine to me. I have been doing similar for 5+ years with bacula
> at work without any issue. I have > 20TB in archive.
There is a small problem with that: Bacula will prune file records for those
jobs based on the Client settings. Using "Auto Prune = no" in the Pool
doesn't prevent that, because file pruning is done per client, not per job or
per pool.
__Martin
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