On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 10:07:22 -0300
Kleber Leal <kleber.leal AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

> Create a off-site pool and create a copy job.
> The bacula will need off-site tapes only when the backups was
> pruned/purged from local tapes.
> 
> Kleber
> 
> 2012/3/9 Uwe Schuerkamp <uwe.schuerkamp AT nionex DOT net>
> 
> > 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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I do the separate pool for offsite backups as well. The only thing I'm
trying to work on is encrypting my offsite's as well. I'm trying to
setup things that I can just copy from my Full tape pool to the
encrypted tape pool. I'm going to use the bacula build in encryption
because the SD is not able to work with the encryption that is
available with LTO-4 tape drives.

Is it possible to use FD encryption with copy jobs?

Thanks

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