On Monday 01 May 2006 09:11, John Gerritse wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I work in a ICT company and we are looking to replace Amanda. I figured
> Bacula would be te best solution, but we hit a snag.
>
> A feature my boss feels is paramount to a back-up package is write the
> data to disk, then to tape. Bacula does that in a way, but "data
> spooling" does only that; spooling. I need it to write to disk, then
> copy or migrate the data to tape. According to the documentation, that
> is a feature planned for the future. Unfortunately, I need it now.
>
> I've considered simply backing data up to disk volumes, then copy that
> to tape by other means, but I'm puzzled how a restore would work in that
> sort of situation.
>
> Is there a workaround someone has successfully used in the field, on
> production servers? Hating to have to reinvent a proverbial wheel, I
> figured I'd ask the community. I really love Bacula and I would love to
> use it in stead of giving Amanda a version bump and a fresh install on
> our shiny new backup server.
>
> So in short; I want backups on disk, then copy them to tape (with
> Bacula, other backup software, commandline script, whatever). We run a
> schedule much like the one explained in the manual ("a daily, weekly,
> monthly tape usage example").
>
> Thanks in advance!

In Bacula terminology what you want is called Migration.  I am currently 
working on it and expected to have it mostly completed by now, however I am 
running a bit behind (see the email I will send later today for more 
details).  The basics of the feature are  working in the development code, 
but it will be several months before it is complete and ready for release.  I 
had originally planed the release for June-July, but it is now looking like 
August ...

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