Hi Kern, My proposed method may be feasible, but do you recommend a more elegant solution to accomplish a migration job between two different tape pools based on the storage resources at my disposal? I just want to make sure before I make the necessary changes to my SAN fabric. Regards, Mike
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Friday 09 March 2007 02:33, Mike Seda wrote: > >> 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?... >> > > Obviously migrating with only one tape drive is not optimal, but what you > describe sounds feasible. Be sure to mark the tapes you are taking offsite > as Archive. > > We will be very interested to hear how this double migration works for you ... > > > > >> 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 >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
