Mike Reinehr wrote: > On Thursday 17 March 2005 03:00 pm, Brennon Church wrote: > >>My intention is actually to do my full and incremental backups to a >>large RAID. Once a week, I wanted to copy the volumes from my full job >>pool to tape for off-site storage. It sounds like Bacula is not quite >>up to such a configuration yet. > > > Either I'm not understanding you (quite possible :-) or you're trying to make > this overly complicated. From what you've just written, it sounds like I'm > already doing this. I have bacula configured to backup about five systems to > file storage on a RAID array in the wee hours of every morning. Then, once a > week I have a bacula job which backs up all of the file storage files onto a > tape. > > The only disadvantage that I can see to this is that in order to restore a > file from tape, I actually will have to run two restore jobs -- the first one > from a tape to a file storage file & the second from file storage to a > system. As Kern & Arno already have mentioned in earlier replies it is not > possible, this way, to restore directly from tape. > > Cheers! > > cmr
That's an interesting way to handle things, and one that I hadn't thought of. Other than the general uncomfortable-ness of backing up my backups, I might just give that a shot. For the moment though, I'm going to see if I can get the incrementals to file and fulls to tape scenario working. I just need to see about getting these bootstrap files set up correctly. Thanks. --Brennon ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
