I’ve been down that road, yes bacula can certainly be configured to handle that at least on a ’nix system. Before your get too far though, you should do your own research on the reliability of spinning disk drives (internal or external). They pale in comparison to Tape. I would include s.m.a.r.t. disk checks as a regular part of my schedule and don’t expect to do this in an archiving scenario, hard drives sitting on a shelf unpowered for in excess of a year have frightening failure rates.
LTO tapes are meant to let for 30 yrs Neil Balchin n...@neilandjo.com 613-818-5454 > On Dec 22, 2021, at 08:41, Anders Gustafsson <anders.gustafs...@pedago.fi> > wrote: > > Hi! > > I was pondering this as a lower-cost alternative to tape and wondering if > this is possible? > > Assuming an exploit, all connected systems would be encrypted in a worst-case > scenario. Tapes sitting on a > shelf would not, neither disconnected USB Drives, so what about this idea: > > Have a few USB drives that were connected through an USB Multiplexer (not > hub) so that the drives were > rotated every weekday. One USB Drive per day. > > The rotation would be handled completely independent from the backup system > in such a way that changeover > happens when bacups are not running. > > How would Bacula handle this? I assume the SD would not mind, but what about > the database? Is it written > completely to disk on every backup? > > -- > Med vänlig hälsning > > Anders Gustafsson, ingenjör > anders.gustafs...@pedago.fi | Support +358 18 12060 | Direkt +358 9 315 > 45 121 | Mobil +358 40506 7099 > > Pedago interaktiv ab, Nygatan 7 B , AX-22100 MARIEHAMN, ÅLAND, FINLAND > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
