Hi, On 4/2/2007 1:46 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Hello. > I'm doing full backups monthly on tapes and differential/incremental on > an HD meanwhile.
Have you tried restoring, so that you need both tape and file volumes? > I finally convinced my customer that tapes need to be brought outside > their building, so they decided to make two copies, bring one outside > and leave the other at hand in case it's needed. > > What's the best way to do this? Erm... well. Wait for copy jobs :-) > I thought of defining two storage pools and running the job twice (once > on each one), but this ain't that perfect: they are going to be slightly > different copies, Right, but in many cases that's ok. It's a policy decision, I'd say. > and they both will count as base for subsequnt > differential/incremental backups. Yes. Run the off-site job first. > I could do the job and then dd from tape to HD and from HD to the second > copy. This is going to be very slow, Yes, and it puts some extra stress on your tapes. Not really serious, but there are people who want their off-site copy on absolutely perfect tape. Others prefer to have a proven tape off-site, i.e. one where they did read the data from once. A matter of priorities... > but, apart from that I don't see > any real drawback, provided I don't insert a "copy" tape, when it's > original one has been purged. (What would happen in that case, I don't > know). I guess you want to write-protect your off-site copies and verify that setting whenever you load one :-) > Other hints? Not really... Arno > bye & Thanks > av. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
