Hi,
On 27.09.2005 17:54, Brad Pinkston wrote:
Could I use bcopy to copy all the volumes from the previous night to the
tape library?
Yeah, that's the sort of way to do this.
The problems are that there are no catalog entries generated for the
tape volumes, and that the volume files are not freshly blocked. Then,
in the volumes, bacula registers the volume name and other data, which
afterwards probably don't fit together as well (as you hopefully use
different media types for files and tapes). It might even be that you
had to insert EOFs manually betwen volumes, and create a bacula tape
label manuall, too.
Personally, I never tried that - too much trouble for almost no gain.
When I ever wanted to move volumes from disk to somewhere else I either
burnt the files to CD or DVD, or used tar for writing to tape - Baculas
volume management is broken in either case, and as long as I have to
read the volumes back to disk manually, I can also use tools that are
easier to use than bcopy :-)
Arno
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-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Stracchino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 1:32 PM
To: Brad Pinkston
Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Duplicating Backups
Brad Pinkston wrote:
Bacula Aficionados,
I am running out of harddrive space on my current backup to disk setup. I
would like to setup a system that would consist of something like this:
1) 30 servers backup to disk on site with a retention time of 1 week.
2) From the on-site backup server these archives would be duplicated to
an off-site backup server utilizing a Point-to-Point link and an
autochanger
at the off-site location.
Is there an easy way to accomplish this that is built into bacula?
Well, the honest answer is "Sort of". It's in the roadmap, but hasn't
been implemented yet.
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