Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula, Offsite, and Restores

2011-09-17 Thread Eric Pratt
2011/9/17 Rodrigo Renie Braga : > > Well, in order to restore from the Copy tapes, yes, you have to purge the > original > tapes... > > But you don't have to purge the original tapes if you want to do a normal > routine restore. Even if you pull out the Copy tapes from your library right > after >

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula, Offsite, and Restores

2011-09-17 Thread Rodrigo Renie Braga
2011/9/16 Eric Pratt > Thank you for your feedback, Rodrigo. I looked up the copy job > information as you suggested. From what I can tell, you have to purge > the original job before you can use a copy. This means to me that to > do a restore, we have to: > > 1) identify all the jobs associat

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula, Offsite, and Restores

2011-09-16 Thread Eric Pratt
Thank you for your feedback, Rodrigo. I looked up the copy job information as you suggested. From what I can tell, you have to purge the original job before you can use a copy. This means to me that to do a restore, we have to: 1) identify all the jobs associated with all the files being restor

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula, Offsite, and Restores

2011-09-11 Thread Rodrigo Renie Braga
Well, I'm really starting to figure this bacula feature yet, but I'd recomend taking a look at Copy Jobs. The ideia would be only running your normal Full/Diff/Inc Backups and then, weekly, create a "copy" of them on your offsite storage. When restoring, it will require only your normal Full/Diff/

[Bacula-users] Bacula, Offsite, and Restores

2011-09-08 Thread Eric Pratt
I'm using Bacula with USB drives to perform offsite backups. I'm trying to create the simplest process possible so in the event I'm unavailable, my coworkers can perform restores with confidence without knowing a whole lot about bacula. Originally, our offsite backups were performed as just a par