2012/2/3 John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>:

Hi, I'm updating our backup system and particularly have this issue that I still can't figure out how to implement:

Scenario:
I make full backup of our servers every friday and diferentials monday to thursdays. I use one tape each week containing exactly everything needed from that week. The jobs belongs to the Default pool.
Every tape gets recycled after 8 weeks, but once every six months I take the last 2 tapes and archive them (one on-site and the other off-site).

Question:
I would like to make a pool for mantaining the archived volumes with a longer retention period. I can make such pool, but how can I move the catalog info from the Default pool to this pool without copying the entire volume information to a new volume? Is it possible?
I see that Migration moves also the information to a new volume.

Would it be too much to make an independent backup for the archive?
You can add an additional Run= line to your schedule resource
overriding the pool for the archive. Then you do not have to migrate
or copy anything.

When I think of this your weekly incrementals for the next week would
probably be based on the archive. You probably will not want that.
Sorry for the noise..

John

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.Cris.