On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Ian Levesque wrote: > I'm curious about using Bacula in a slightly different way than it was > apparently intended. We have large directories of data that need to > periodically be moved offline to tape. I've got a Scalar 100 with two > LTO2 drives. I wouldn't be doing incremental/differential backups, or > scheduled backups in any way. At first, I was using a shell script > that wrapped around tar. Since my archives often need to span tapes > and sometimes many tapes, it was becoming very difficult to manage. I > think a solution like Bacula is *mostly* right for my needs, but my > question is whether anyone on list has an installation similar to mine > and can offer some management advice. How do you configure your jobs > and schedules when it's just a bunch of one-off archives?
I just use manual scheduling (nothing specified), a special pool (archives) and kick the jobs off manually. Even if the archive job entries are lost from the database you can still effect a restore using bacula's manual tools. AB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
