Hello, I just installed bacula for a first time, successfully configured it and checked that backup-restore to "file storage" works. The next step is to use the tape service (CASTOR), which is a little bit special in our organization (CERN). To write/read to/from a tape I need to use a command "rfcp" (a replacement of the standard "cp" command on Unix). I can even create directories on the tape with "rfmkdir" and remove files/directories with "rfrm". I think I need only need to adopt "rfcp" command to work with bacula.
This is the scheme I want to implement: --- BACKUP: - Start a backup to a local disk: Volume-YYYY-MM-DD - Once the backup is finished, copy Volume-YYYY-MM-DD to the tape, remove the Volume from the local disk so every backup produces a new volume which will be copied to a tape --- RESTORE: - Bacula tells which Volumes are needed for restore - These Volumes are copied from the tape to the local disk (with "rfcp") - the files are restored by Bacula I am still reading the documentation, but if someone could explain me how to implement my scheme, I would appreciate this a lot. Basically I am trying to figure out right now, do I need to hack the bacula scripts (like mtx-changer) or it is just the config files should be changed. Thanks a lot in advance! Alexander Zvyagin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
