Forgive the long post, but I have a situation here that requires some
help...
My current setup...
-- NetApp filer containing ~35TB of data to be backed up to tape
-- Quantumi40 w/ 2 LTO-5 drives
-- Quantum SL3 w/ 1 LTO-5 drive
-- HP DL-380G5 with 16GB RAM and 3 x spool hdd
-- CentOS 6.5 with kernel 2.6.32-431.23.3.el6.x86_64
-- Bacula 7.0.5
-- All data going to tape comes via NFS from filer with each tape drive
having a dedicated spool spindle
-- Full jobs run once per week, on Wednesdays
-- Incremental jobs run daily
-- Tapes leave daily to IronMountain, offsite for 1 week
My current issues...
-- Tape auto-recycling is not happening consistently/reliably
-- Tapes now need to be offsite for longer periods of time.
Given the amount of hand holding I have had to do with bacula over the
last couple of years, I am convinced that my configs are not very
helpful or accurate...
So my question is this...
What would be the best setup for pools/retention/schedules to accomplish:
-- Manage volumes/pools between both autochanger devices
Having the same media type for both autochanger devices will let you manage volumes in both autochangers. Update slots command will update the device information for the tapes.
-- Tapes offsite daily, to return 31 days later for recycling
-- Tapes written daily/weekly via incremental and/or diff jobs
-- Tapes written weekly/monthly via Full jobs
I would have 3 pools: DailyPool, WeeklyPool, MonthlyPool (I am supposing you have different retention periods for this. You just specified a 31 days retention for daily backups?).
Pool {
Name = DailyPool
...
Volume Retention = 31 days
...
}
-- Automating the 'update slots' and 'volume status' changes when tapes
leave daily
I have an admin job that runs every day immediately before the first backup job. And this admin job just runs an update slots from bconsole.
-- Restore validation tests performed quarterly
Do you want this to happen automatically? I do not understand your need here... But if this is the case, you can do this with some scripting and bls/bextract.
I have a 30 days retention for daily diff backups, 40 day retention for weekly full backups and 5 years retention for monthly full backups. Please let me know if you have a similar case.
Best regards,
Ana
Let me know if you need further information, and thanks in advance for
reading and any help!
--eddie
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