I have done something silmilar with tape magazines. I use normal backups on disks, with Full on sunday and Incr on weekdays.
On saturday I schedule a Full copy on tapes (2 drives on a 19 slots changer). We keep 3 magazines wich are rotated, each containing some volumes of the 4 pools onto which we make the backups. Volumes expire after 24 days.
On monday we can verify if all the backups were done correctly (eventually we have all the week to integrate failed ones).
When we want to change the magazine we use a script (through WEBMIN) that unmount and unload the drives, then we change the magazine and run another script (really is the same with another argument) that disables the volumes in the previous mag and enable the new ones.
I will attach the script, but it is not general and really not commented. Also it is working with 1.36.3 and messages are in Italian.
If someone in the list is interested I could try to make it more general and usable.
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Ferdinando Pasqualetti
G.T.Dati srl
Tel. 0557310862 - 3356172731 - Fax 055720143
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 14/12/2005 12.34.19:
> Hi Kern,
>
> (quoting may be a bit confused; sorry)
>
> >> It seems to me that with a bit of tweaking, not only could Bacula be
> made to
> >> know what is and what is not online, but it could also automatically
> mount
> >> the Volume if needed. All I need to do is steal (well, adapt is a
> better
> >> word) a bit of the DVD code.
>
> That would be very useful to me too, trying to use an Iomega Rev as per
> earlier messages to this list.
>
> >> In the mean time, dealing with these things won't be so simple for
> you. What
> >> you need to do is write two little scripts that you run: 1. a script
> that you
> >> run just before you remove a device, and 2. a script that you run
> when you
> >> insert the device.
>
> These scripts sound rather involved! Has anyone written anything similar?
>
> Thanks again Kern and the other developers / list support crew for an
> excellent job!
>
> --
> Regards
> Richard (MQ)
>
>
>
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