Hi Bacula People,
It will be painfully apparent that I am new to bacula.
Our organisation performs a backup to two SDLTs every week (it takes two to
hold the full set). Every four weeks, they want to relabel the tapes as
'monthly-XX', do the weekly back-up to it, take that week's tapes off site.
They also want to bring back two old monthly tapes from way-back-whenever
and relabel them with the weekly tape pair name of the ones that they'd
relabelled to make the monthly (whoa, I just lost /myself/!).
Anyway, all that aside--I've read the manual and I'm just not sure on a
particular issue: can one purge then relabel volumes willy-nilly, even with
volume names you've used before, and backups will still happen happily?
E.g.:
we have the following SDLTs on-site:
wk1.a, wk1.b ; wk2.a, wk2.b ; wk3.a, wk3.b ; wk4.a, wk4.b
and say the following off site:
mth1.a, mth1.b
it's weekly backup time so I put the full set over: wk3.a and wk3.b
...
now it's monthly backup time, so I purge wk4.a and wk4.b, relabel them as
mth2.a and mth2.b, put the full set over mth2.a and mth2.b, then take mth2.a
and mth2.b off site.
I bring back mth1.a and mth1.b from off site, purge them, relabel them to
wk4.a and wk4.b then I'll be able to use them in the weekly cycle again.
(Am I right?)
Pre-emptive thanks,
ty
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