Berend Dekens wrote: > Hi all, > > After trying the new beta's which hold Copy Jobs support I discovered > that a copy job (just like a migration job) can only transfer data from > one storage pool to another within *the same* storage daemon. Because I > wanted to use this for offsite backups this won't work for me. > > I tried to get offsite backups by doing a local backup first to the > local SD and then another backup to the remote SD. This works fine when > backupping but when you need to recover data (and you are using > incrementals or differentials instead of full backups) the SD which you > told to perform the restore will most likely ask for backup volumes > which are part of the remote pool and remote SD. For some reason it > seems that bacula can't keep the pool data seperate so this way of > offsite backupping won't work (unless I missed an option somewhere). > > I now came up with a new plan: the offsite location has its own Bacula > backup system with a seperate director and clients. The local bacula > shares the storage daemon of the remote system (making scheduling a tad > tricky to prevent 2 directors wanting to run jobs on the same SD). If I > let the remote director backup the local systems, the data is completely > offsite (including database) - giving me what I want. > I'm not sure if I quite follow what you are trying to accomplish, but it seems to me that maybe rsync would be another option to accomplish basically the same goal? Or am I way off base here?
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