Hello, I have been happily using Bacula to write data to file storage for a few weeks now. I would like, at the end of each week or month, to move those backups to a tape drive. Ideally, my wishes would be served by the ability to migrate a set of backups from one pool to another. I have read that this feature is planned but not yet implemented. In the meantime, I thought that I could accomplish something close by defining a job that writes the file volumes that Bacula creates onto a tape volume. I realize that this would complicate restore jobs and may very well give me a headache from dealing with the recursive logic, but despite that, I still wonder if it is safe/feasible. Of course I don't anticipate having to restoring from tape with any frequency but I'd like to make sure the concept is sound before trying it.
It is important in my situation that the bulk of the data be retained on hard disk for a period of time. It is also important to have a portable archived copy on tape afterwards. But making an additional connection to the clients to pull the data a second time just for the tape is very undesirable. Has anyone set up anything similar using Bacula and learned any lessons that you would be willing to pass along? Thanks! -Jake ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
