On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 08:48:40AM +0100, Holikar, Sachin (ext) wrote: > Hello Admis, > > We have a working Bacula ( Release 2.2.7) setup. > So far all the backup tapes are retained inside the tape library. But now we > have decided to keep 1 set offsite. > We have created a separate pool of tapes ( say 10 tapes) and taken few > important backups last week. Now couple of tapes are used for this backup job. > Now the questions are : > > 1. Can we just take out the filled/half-filled tapes out of the tape library > just like that to be kept at offsite? Or some necessary procedure is > required for this? > 2. Once we take out few tapes from the offsite pool , can we start taking > new backup onto remaining tapes in this pool? > 3. Or simply point me to correct links where we can read the fundamentals of > offsite backups. > > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > - Sachin
Hello Sachin, for most small bacula sites I keep all tapes in one pool, then remove them as necessary from the autochanger (say all that have been written during a week) and set their volume status to "Archive" using the "update volume" bconsole command. Following that I erase the tapes I put into the library in exchange for the archived ones and (re-)label them with bconsole as necessary. You should also take a look at your volume retention time, it should be long enough so that bacula won't "forget" the archived tapes at some point. HTH Uwe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
