Re: [bareos-users] bareos for archiving

2025-03-15 Thread Brock Palen
Similar to what other have said it could probably work, but you need though is volumes and settings where things never get purged. A better option IMHO is LTFS https://github.com/LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs/wiki/ltfs This basically lets you fuse mount a tape and write to it like a disk you can e

Re: [bareos-users] bareos for archiving

2025-03-15 Thread Spadajspadaj
It is possible. Tape is just another medium and bareos is just another solution that stores data on the tape. There are some issues to tackle though. Firstly, as with normal backup jobs - if you prune records from database you need to read tape contents manually. But that's nothing special, just wo

[bareos-users] bareos for archiving

2025-03-14 Thread Otto Brandstaetter
Hi, I have been using bareos for more than 8 years or so as a backup solution for my home servers. Now, I am thinking about a different thing. I want to archive to tapes - meaning that I want to backup and delete stuff afterwards from the disks to save space. If needed, I can recover it from ta