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[Bacula-users] Moving old bacula Volume to Tape (LTO)

2016-09-01 10:42:17
Subject: [Bacula-users] Moving old bacula Volume to Tape (LTO)
From: Anthony McGovern <anthony.mcgovern AT griffith DOT ie>
To: Bacula <bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 11:08:26 +0000
Hi everyone
                I was hoping someone could answer a very quick question I had 
about migrating old bacula volumes to tape. We have our File Retention Period 
for 3 months after which we move files to an LTO-5 Tape. We also have a 
migration job setup in the conf files of our servers that move to volumes to 
tape after 3 months (then the jobs are purged from the bacula catalogue) Due to 
unforeseen issues with our tape drive we missed one of these migration jobs. 
Now on our server the file layout looks like this:   Volume1, Volume2, Volume3, 
and Volume4 (Volume4 being the one that we missed) I can't run a Migration job 
now as every time I try it looks to migrate Volume3 (as its 3 months old) If 
there any way I can force bacula to look at a specific volume and migrate that 
to tape. the command I'm using is:  '*run client=Server-fd 
job=Server-Migration-Job Level=Full storage=Server-Storage" 
          
Does anyone know if there is a way to get bacula to migrate the missing Volume4 
to LTO tape
                  

Kind Regards 
Anthony McGovern
IT Systems Administrator

Griffith College
South Circular Road, Dublin 8, Ireland
 
Phone:  + 353 1 416 3395
Website: http://www.griffith.ie

 
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