Re: [Bacula-users] Preserving data of decommissioned Bacula client

2011-12-22 Thread Alan Brown
Win Htin wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:03 PM, John Drescher wrote: >>> If I want to retire an old server but need to keep the backup data for >>> several years, what is the best option? Just disable the job? What >>> happens if the old server is deleted from the clients list? >>> >> The big

Re: [Bacula-users] Preserving data of decommissioned Bacula client

2011-12-21 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 20111221 om 18:12 schreef Win Htin: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:03 PM, John Drescher wrote: > >> If I want to retire an old server but need to keep the backup data for > >> several years, what is the best option? Just disable the job? What > >> happens if the old server is deleted from the cli

Re: [Bacula-users] Preserving data of decommissioned Bacula client

2011-12-21 Thread Randy Katz
I asked this recently and was pointed to the docs on bscan. So I tested bscan on a separate Director box and it works very well, takes a while, but is feasible. So you would: Get hard copy or the best thing to it of the last Full backup you want to save and/or any incr/diff after that. When you n

Re: [Bacula-users] Preserving data of decommissioned Bacula client

2011-12-21 Thread Win Htin
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:03 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> If I want to retire an old server but need to keep the backup data for >> several years, what is the best option? Just disable the job? What >> happens if the old server is deleted from the clients list? >> > > The big problem is volume rec

Re: [Bacula-users] Preserving data of decommissioned Bacula client

2011-12-21 Thread John Drescher
> If I want to retire an old server but need to keep the backup data for > several years, what is the best option? Just disable the job? What > happens if the old server is deleted from the clients list? > The big problem is volume recycling. Does this server use volumes that any other server uses