Create a off-site pool and create a copy job.
The bacula will need off-site tapes only when the backups was pruned/purged
from local tapes.
Kleber
2012/3/9 Uwe Schuerkamp <uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net>
> 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
>
>
>
>
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