Hi,
you could use copy jobs (copying backups to tape), bacula will only ask
for tapes if there is no local backup.
greetings
Am 22.01.2016 um 11:01 schrieb Ana Emília M. Arruda:
> Hello Andrea,
>
> Do you have 2 different jobs to accomplish this? I do not understand
> what do you mean when you say "The Fileset is the same for both jobs".
> If you use different jobs, one for doing the disk backups (monthly full
> and daily diff/incr) and another one for the tape backups (weekly full),
> both with the same FileSet, the daily diff/incr disk backups should
> reference the monthly full disk backups and not the weekly full tape
> backups.
>
> Best regards,
> Ana
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Andrea Venturoli <ml AT netfence DOT it
> <mailto:ml AT netfence DOT it>> wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I'm loosing myself in what I think should be a pretty easy thing,
> probabily a FAQ, but I could not find a clear answer...
>
>
>
> My situation is as follows:
> _ I do monthly full and daily diff/incr backup to a NAS (this is fast
> and easy);
> _ I also do weekly full backups to tapes (slow, unconfortable, but
> safer).
>
> The Fileset is the same for both jobs.
>
> So, in case of a restore, bacula selects the last tape backup (since
> it's usually more recent than the last full disk backup) and subsequent
> diff and incr from disk.
> This is coherent with the fact that diff/incr backups are made with
> reference to the last full (on tape) backup.
>
>
>
> What I'd like to achieve, instead, is to always use restore from disk
> and leave tapes as a last resort, in case something really went bad.
>
> Is there a way I can tell bacula to almost ignore tape backups, so:
> a) always use the last disk full as a reference for subsequent
> diff/incr;
> a) always restore from disk, unless I really ask for the tape (e.g. by
> job number)?
>
> Is there a flag I can mark the tape pool with?
>
>
>
> I thought:
> a) do a VirtualFull from disk to tape, but that would then again be used
> as a reference full, wouldn't it?
> b) do a Copy: this should work, but I'd need to copy several
> full/diff/incr jobs (not having a complete up to date full);
> c) purge the tape job just after doing it, but then I would only be able
> to bextract from it and I would have no track of it in the DB;
> d) do a VirtualFull on disk, copy it to tape, delete it (since it would
> take too much space on the NAS), but should it really be this difficult?
> e) is that what archive pools (currently unimplemented AFAIK) are for?
>
>
>
> Any hint appreciated.
>
> bye & Thanks
> av.
>
>
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