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Re: [Bacula-users] Can someone help me to solve my logical problem... ?

2010-03-11 10:23:28
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Can someone help me to solve my logical problem... ?
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: gnowar <g.nowar AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:21:13 -0500
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:01 AM, gnowar <g.nowar AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with my personnal cycle tape. Let's see how it works :
>
> I have 20 tapes who are changed everyday. Everytime the 20s tape comes, I
> put it in a box during 365 days.
>
> It's like that :
>
> 1-
> 2-
> 3-
> 4-
> 5-
> .
> .
> .
> 20------> In the box during 1 year
>
> And so on...
>
> 1- (New tape)
> 2- (Ex 1st tape)
> 3- (Ex 2nd tape)
> .
> .
> .
> 20------> In the box during 1 year
>
>
> You see my problem ? I haven't the same retention times for the tapes who
> are rewritted every 20 days, and those who are keeped during one year.
>
> The problem is that I put the catalog name, the file and job retention in
> the client definition... and as I know, I can't have two same client right ?
>
> I can't find any solution, excepted keeping files, jobs and volumes during
> only 20 days and save the catalog in each tape, and rebuilt the catalog to
> recover datas... But that's not easy to use..
>
> Can someone has an idea ?
>

Use 1 pool for the tapes you keep for 1 year and 1 pool for the tapes
that you rotate. Adjust your schedule to make a full backup to  the
"Year Pool" every 20 days.

John

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