Re: [Bacula-users] Retention Periods for long-term archival

2007-02-21 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:16, Ralf Gross wrote: > Kern Sibbald schrieb: > > It is quite possible that Bacula will re-create all the pools the next > > time the Director is restarted. > > Indeed. And the pool id's now are different too. Is there any way that I > can prevent bacula to re-creat

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention Periods for long-term archival

2007-02-21 Thread Ralf Gross
Kern Sibbald schrieb: > It is quite possible that Bacula will re-create all the pools the next time > the Director is restarted. Indeed. And the pool id's now are different too. Is there any way that I can prevent bacula to re-create the deleted pools? I'm sure at some point someone (maybe me) wi

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention Periods for long-term archival

2007-02-21 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:30, Ralf Gross wrote: > Kern Sibbald schrieb: > > 1. You might want to use two different databases, one for regular backups > > and one for archives. This will clearly separate your archive data from > > your regular data. > > Basically this working now. But I'm a

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention Periods for long-term archival

2007-02-21 Thread Ralf Gross
Kern Sibbald schrieb: > 1. You might want to use two different databases, one for regular backups and > one for archives. This will clearly separate your archive data from your > regular data. Basically this working now. But I'm a bit confused about the handling of pools and the assigned volume

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention Periods for long-term archival

2007-02-20 Thread Ralf Gross
Ralf Gross schrieb: > But now bacula-dir does not start with the second catalog: > > 20-Feb 22:07 bacula-dir: Fatal error: Database not created or server not > running. > 20-Feb 22:07 bacula-dir: Fatal error: Could not open Catalog > "ArchiveCatalog", > database "bacula_archive". > 20-Feb 22:

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention Periods for long-term archival

2007-02-20 Thread Ralf Gross
Kern Sibbald schrieb: > > I created differnt pools for regular backups and long term archival. I > > think the retention times are reasonable. We are aware that we can't handle > > a _real_ long time archival (copy to new media, verify...), but we want to > > keep the volumes for 30 years. > > Be

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention Periods for long-term archival

2007-02-20 Thread Kern Sibbald
Just a few quick responses ... On Tuesday 20 February 2007 17:24, Ralf Gross wrote: > Hi, > > I had a very simple setup for the last 12 months. > > * backup everything to tape and keep the last 2 weeks before > recycling old volumes > * keep the monthly tape(s) for 3 years > > I didn't care much