On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 08:48:40AM +0100, Holikar, Sachin (ext) wrote:
> Hello Admis,
> 
> We have a working Bacula ( Release 2.2.7) setup.
> So far all the backup tapes are retained inside the tape library. But now we 
> have decided to keep 1 set offsite.
> We have created a separate pool of tapes ( say 10 tapes) and taken few 
> important backups last week. Now couple of tapes are used for this backup job.
> Now the questions are :
> 
> 1.  Can we just take out the filled/half-filled tapes out of the tape library 
> just like that to be kept at offsite?  Or some necessary procedure is 
> required for this?
> 2.  Once we take out few tapes from the offsite pool , can we start taking 
> new backup onto remaining tapes in this pool?
> 3.  Or simply point me to correct links where we can read the fundamentals of 
> offsite backups.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Regards,
> - Sachin


Hello Sachin,

for most small bacula sites I keep all tapes in one pool, then remove
them as necessary from the autochanger (say all that have been written
during a week) and set their volume status to "Archive" using the
"update volume" bconsole command. Following that I erase the tapes I
put into the library in exchange for the archived ones and (re-)label
them with bconsole as necessary. 

You should also take a look at your volume retention time, it should
be long enough so that bacula won't "forget" the archived tapes at
some point. 

HTH Uwe 



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