To ensure that I understand, here's what I think you want to do. Use bacula for backups to disk-based volumes. Create backups of these volumes to a tape library. Tapes are taken offsite.
I think that the feature of bacula you want is copying jobs, which is currenly in development. However, I can think of a couple of things you can do. (1) Bacula can use multiple catalogues. Use a second catalogue for backing up (or archiving) the disk volumes to tape. You can set the priority of the archiving job to ensure that it doesn't start until after the backups have completed. You could also have a pre-flight script that dumps the first catalogue and include it in the tape-archiving. You could have a final (after archiving) job that dumps the second catalogue. This won't be very large since the archive will contain a small number of large files. You could probably save it to CD or transfer it somewhere else for disaster recovery. (2) Instead of tar use star. It can use different header types that enable it to store ACLs and files larger than 2G. It also has a multi-volume mode and a new-volume-script option. You can write your own scripts to operate the tape-library using the mtx command. If you are using multiple drives, you will need to use lockfiles or semaphores to avoid conflicts with the user of the changer. Hope this helps. Kel Raywood ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
