Hi All,
I too have switched off a few machines lately, and wish to save their 
last complete backup to an Archive pool. Basically, I want to migrate a 
few jobs from my "Weekly" pool to my "Archive" pool. Fortunately, I too 
have one last full backup in the system, but since I only have one tape 
drive migration is a bit tricky... I just wanted to run my temporary 
solution by you before I implement it (btw, a second tape drive is in 
our budget for next fiscal year):

1) Mount a 1 TB FC disk array (currently not being utilized) on the 
bacula server
2) Tell bacula the array is of Media Type "File" (my tape library is 
Media Type "Tape"), and put it in the "Disk" pool.
3) Do a migrate job from my "Weekly" pool to the "Disk" Pool.
4) Do a migrate job from my "Disk" pool to the "Archive" Pool.

Does this sound like a reasonable solution until I can spring for 
another tape drive?... Fyi, the array is fast (12 x 15 K FC disks in 
RAID 5)...

Fyi, my setup is:
Dell PE 2650 (1 x 73 GB RAID 1, 1 x 450 GB RAID 0 )
Bacula 2.0.1 (400 GB of Data-Spooling configured to mitigate tape 
shoe-shine, Current Pools=Weekly, Scratch)
RHEL 4 AS
Quantum PX502 (LTO-3, FC, 1-Drive)

Regards,
Mike


Alan Brown wrote:
> I have a number of machines which have been switched off in the last 6 
> months and want to save their last complete backup to an archive pool in 
> order to both free up the main pool and to ensure there's one last copy of 
> everything.
>
> In some cases, there is one last full backup in the system, so all that'd 
> be required is a single jobID migration
>
> In other cases, the migrated last full backup would have to be made up of 
> full+diff+inc
>
> Does anyone have cookiecutter instructions for this?
>
> If so, they should be added to the manual's Migration chapter.
>
> AB
>
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