Thanks for the response. My intention is actually to do my full and incremental backups to a large RAID. Once a week, I wanted to copy the volumes from my full job pool to tape for off-site storage. It sounds like Bacula is not quite up to such a configuration yet.
Another option would have been to have the incrementals go to the RAID while fulls were sent to the tape library, but based on other posts I've read it would appear that this also is not yet possible. Can anyone correct me? Or is this, indeed, the way things currently are? Thanks again. --Brennon Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > Brennon Church wrote: > > bcopy problems... > >> So I guess my questions are these: >> >> Is anyone else using bcopy to copy from file volumes to tapes? >> >> If bcopy can't manage things with the autoloader, how can/does it work >> when you need to copy multiple volumes to multiple tapes? Currently the >> only way I can see to do this is by copying the file volumes to tape >> individually, using the method described above. Based on what I've read >> in the documentation, however, this will cause problems whenever a job >> bridges the volumes, as I believe the job at the end of the volume would >> be dropped as incomplete. >> >> Thanks for any help you can provide. > > > Unfortunately, I can't provide any real help. > In my opinion, bcopy was not really meant for job migration from one > media to the other. rather, I see it as some sort of a desaster recovery > tool where you are glad if something works and live with the problems... > > It seems that you are using bacula as a sort of HSM system - that's not > (yet) possible, I'd say. Well, job migration has been discussed along > with other things and I'd say that it will be implemented in bacula one > day, but probably not in the next weeks. > > If you only want to have your backups quickly put the data to disk and > later onto tape - D2D2T, only to show that I know the proper terms ;-) - > a large spool space might be the best solution, although a job is > finished only after everything is on tape. In some cases, that might > block other jobs from starting. > > Arno > >> --Brennon >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide >> Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. >> Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. >> http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click >> _______________________________________________ >> Bacula-users mailing list >> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >> > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
