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Re: [Bacula-users] Create two identical tapes, with one tape drive.

2012-06-23 09:13:52
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Create two identical tapes, with one tape drive.
From: Hugo Letemplier <hugo.let.35 AT gmail DOT com>
To: Yougo <hugo.let.35 AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:11:06 +0200
Le 15 juin 2012 à 00:36, Yougo a écrit :

> Hi
> 
> A second demand to the list this evening. ;-)
> 
> I have an external script that select jobids in my db and then select them 
> for copying via a copy job into a tape, once the selection is done it sends 
> the sequentially to bconsole.
> This create an external tape archive of the enterprise main data
> I am supposed to keep the file records from theses tapes as long as possible, 
> at least for some particular jobs.
> 
> Also, to be fully redundant i want to create a second copy of this archive, 
> the first one would be stored locally in order to recover some particular 
> files, the second one is externalized just in case the first one is destroyed 
> in a disaster. I have only one LTO3 drive so I cant copy directly from one 
> tape to another.
> 
> To keep the catalog as light as possible I don't want to create a second copy 
> of the file records inside bacula but in want to be able to restore from one 
> tape as well as from the other one.
> This last condition infers that both tape should have the same label.
> 
> What methods are possible to make it ?
> 
> I have minded in using dd,bcopy… But I cant say which one is the more 
> appropriated and safe.
> 
> Also I tried to write to a kind of "spool file" device and then to dd it to 
> my two tapes. I saw that bcopy is only writing to a volume that got a 
> different name, does someone succeeded in cloning a file into a tape
> 
> Thanks for your answers
> 
> Hugo
> 
> 


Hello ?

No one already did that ?

I have tried bcopy but the problem is that I should use it from one tape to 
another with a different label. So I lose the capacity to restore easily from 
that tape because I don't have the file/job records associated to that tape in 
database.

Hugo
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