Re: [Bacula-users] Copy job clarification requested

2023-05-20 Thread Graham Sparks
I can second the 'copy job' route---it's great for disk-to-disk-to-tape scenarios and means the data transfer is only between SDs. Just use console command "list jobs copies" to see their IDs. The manual's description of the "Copy" type is pretty good: https://www.bacula.org/13.0.x-manuals/en/

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy job clarification requested

2023-05-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 5/18/23 18:37, Chris Wilkinson wrote: I'm not sure I'm getting the motivation for using a copy job in preference to a duplicate job to a second SD. This would also create a second backup. The only reason I can think of is that a duplicate job might be different if the files changed in betwee

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy job clarification requested

2023-05-18 Thread Chris Wilkinson
I'm not sure I'm getting the motivation for using a copy job in preference to a duplicate job to a second SD. This would also create a second backup. The only reason I can think of is that a duplicate job might be different if the files changed in between. That shouldn't be an issue. I read that a

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy job clarification requested

2023-05-18 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Thank you Bill, a comprehensive reply as always 🙏. I'll need to study this some more. -Chris- On Thu, 18 May 2023, 16:45 Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users, < bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On 5/18/23 08:07, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > > I have not used a copy job before so I thought I wo

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy job clarification requested

2023-05-18 Thread Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users
On 5/18/23 08:07, Chris Wilkinson wrote: I have not used a copy job before so I thought I would try one. I used Baculum v11 to set one up that copies a job from a local USB drive to a NAS. The setup was straightforward. I created a new pool to receive the copy, defined the source and destinatio

[Bacula-users] Copy job clarification requested

2023-05-18 Thread Chris Wilkinson
I have not used a copy job before so I thought I would try one. I used Baculum v11 to set one up that copies a job from a local USB drive to a NAS. The setup was straightforward. I created a new pool to receive the copy, defined the source and destination job, pool and SD/storage. This worked just