UNCLASSIFIED Hello,
I'd like to set up a schedule in Bacula to do the following: 1. A full backup on each Friday. {approximately 3 - 4 tapes on an 24 slot auto-changer} 2. Unload these tapes, so they can be transported offsite 3. Load new tapes and have them ready for the next full backup. 4. After 3 - 4 weeks reuse the first tapes (cycle thru the tapes). So all backups at this point are full backs happening each Friday which are then taken offsite for DR and new tapes are put in to the pool to be used in the next backup. This would be in a monthly cycle. Can you explain what pools, schedules I'd need to setup? I'm getting full backups at present but I'm not sure what to do to get the new tapes to be recognised by bacula? I guess I need to load 12 -16 tapes into my pool and set the retention period to a month? Once the full backup is completed each week take out the tapes that have been written to and allow Bacula to write to the next tape in the pool? I wouldn't want the last tape to be appendable, so would have to mark that tape as Full some how? I would be looking at doing incremental on weekdays (Mon - Thu) as well (but would like to crawl before I can walk). Re: Incremental I assuming that this would be an individual pool setup with Xxx (probably only 1 - 2 tapes weekly) amount of tapes which would also have to be sent offsite as well. Has any documentation been written on this sort of backup? Alan Langley Systems Manager Archival Business Systems The National Archives of Australia UNCLASSIFIED ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including 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