On 9/5/24 18:46, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote:
Hello.
When using multiple removable disks, I would recommend Josh Fisher's
excellent "vchanger"
You can find it here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vchanger/
While I endorse this suggestion, I use this software and I'm even the
port maintainer for FreeBSD, I think the OP is asking for something
different.
Vchanger is excellent if you rotate disk regularly as a
daily/weekly/monthly task.
The OP, however, wants to "replace the disk every now and then and keep
the old as an archival copy". I guess "archival copy" means they want
Bacula to forget about that disk.
In that case I wouldn't bother with vchanger.
Just swap the disk with a new one; of course Bacula won't be able to
restore from any of the volume on that disk, unless you put it back online.
Eventually the job/files will be purged from the catalog: in that case
using bscan/bextract will be the only way to perform a restore from
those volumes.
bye
av.
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