On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 20:28 +0100, Thomas wrote: > Hi List, > > i'm currently evaluating cloning of tapes with a two drive autochanger. > has someone suggestions or experience with that? > > currently i'm playing with bcopy for cloning and bextract/bscan to read the > data from the offsite tape.... > > Best Regards > > Thomas >
Hello We are running CopyDiskToTape since about 6 months, see http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html#SECTION00520000000000000000 Weeky cron job runs bcopy (tape to tape) for offsite storage. This is "half production setup" :-), no major problems till now. I am using the latest svn 2.5.x on the server side. bcopy is not very fast (because not bufferd nor multithreaded). LTO-4 copy runs 5 hours at 40MB/s speed. bextract/bscan is a very time consuming process, i have only done very basic tests. Now i think about a CopyTapeToOffsiteTape, because i like to manage all from bacula and mostly automated. OffsiteTape pool will have long retention time (1-2 year) Tapes will be manually purged, (6-12 weekly tape sets first year, 4 tape sets second year) Ulrich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
