On 05/28/13 16:10, dweimer wrote:
> I am looking to configure a Bacula installation to use a monthly full, 
> weekly differential, and daily incremental to a file pool.  I will have 
> the required disk space to keep 3 months of these online for restores.  
> And will be keeping tapes offsite for a longer period of time.  What I 
> would like to do though is make sure if we have to do a restore from 
> tape, that I don't end up needing to use 30 tapes for the restore.  From 
> the reading I have done it appears that I will need to use a SQL Query 
> to determine the jobs to copy, finding the most recent full, the most 
> recent differential (if exists) since the full, and all incremental jobs 
> after the full or last differential.


No.  Bacula will take care of that for you.  You tell it what you want
to restore from when to where, and it will search the catalog and tell
you what media you will need to perform the restore.

Also remember that you always have the ability at any time to create a
"virtual full" job from the most recent Full, Differential, and
applicable incrementals.



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