Sachin,
if you use copy job you will not need to change the media status.
Read about job copy on
http://bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_3_0_0.html#SECTION001320000000000000000
Kleber
2012/3/9 Holikar, Sachin (ext) <sachin.holikar....@siemens.com>
>
> Thanks Uwe for the reply.
>
> I request some explanation here.
> You suggested :
>
> 1. Create a separate offsite pool and then after use, remove them as
> necessary from the autochanger and set their volume status to "Archive"
> using the "update volume" bconsole command.
>
> You meant that after making the volume status as Archive , we can
> remove the tapes from the library and keep offsite. Correct?
> The documentation says "All the files contained on an Archived
> Volume are removed from the Catalog." Is it true ?
> Then how do we make sure that the data would be intact with all
> previous records when the actual offsite tapes are required to be
> inserted/restored back in the library ?
>
> Please clarify.
>
> 2. 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.
>
> Why there is need to erase the tapes which are archived ?? Please
> explain.
>
>
> Thanx.
>
>
> - Sachin
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uwe Schuerkamp [mailto:uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net]
> Sent: Freitag, 9. März 2012 13:48
> To: Holikar, Sachin (ext)
> Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula Offsite Backups
>
> 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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