Arno Lehmann wrote: > The simple solution is to set up your volumes so they are > automatically closed after a given time, in your case a few days, > after they were used. This is easy with Bacula.
OK, I can script this pretty easily. Thanks for the pointers on umount and update slots. I think I can always umount all the tapes each time, or at least specific slots/labels, because I'm not tight on space in the magazine and I won't be rotating the off-site tapes into other backup work. >> Is anyone else doing something like this with Bacula? > > You could continue with your dirvish backups and simply back up that > repository using Bacula, which is not an unusual setup. Dirvish has worked well for me, but I'd like to move to a unified system for backups across all platforms (Linux and Windows). I never used dirvish on Windows (using Retrospect but it's corrupting its own catalogs every few weeks). My testing of Bacula on Windows has been positive so far, and it would be nice to be able to use the same system for all clients. Still have some disaster recovery testing to do for Windows (open files and all that hassle). I'm still trying to figure out how to have Bacula write weekly stuff to the tapes and keep a copy on disk without doing two backup jobs (reading from the clients twice). I guess I could just keep two pools--disk based for Monday-Saturday and tape based for Sunday--and just not have Sunday backups on-line. -- Shaw Terwilliger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SourceGear LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
