Hello, On Thursday 15 February 2007 11:16:06 > Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:34:34 -0800 > Hi, > > I would like to archive some data to tape and keep it around forever. > Would using bacula to do this be the right way? Or would simply > tarring them up to the tape be better? > > This is a one time job (and not a regular backup), and I have defined > a job for ad-hoc stuff like this within bacula. I can set the volume > (that this job will go to) to have a very long volume retention, but > that still leaves the job records.
I use a separate Pool for this. With very long retention periods, as you say. Then I make sure bacula does never attempt to recycle volumes in that pool (Recycle = no). Also you may set AutoPrune=no which should keep job records forever (unless you manually prune volumes). On the other hand, you may even loose the job records. Its easy to re-create them by reading the volume back in with bscan -m. Might be time consuming depending on the volume size/speed but works very well. The important point is to not recycle the volume(s) by accident. For tapes: just flip the read-only switch... :-) Stephan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
