Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Catalog Backup to tape

2011-08-27 11:17:53
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Catalog Backup to tape
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 11:15:57 -0400
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:13 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 4:06 AM, frank_sg
> <bacula-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I do my catalog backups to tape. I have an autoloader (Dell TL2000) with an 
>> LTO4 drive. I have created a pool "Catalog" containing two tapes. Since my 
>> catalog is not that big  8)  all the catalog backups have been writen to the 
>> first tape in the pool. But I would like to switch the tape for every 
>> catalog backup - so first backup goes to first tape, second to second tape, 
>> third to first tape again, and so on. How is this posible with bacula?
>>
>
> Use volume once. With a 1 day retention period.

If you want to put more than 1 catalog on a tape use a different pool
for each of the tapes and use the schedule resource to schedule both
pools every other day.

John

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