On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Stuart McGraw <smcg4...@frii.com> wrote: > On 01/12/2010 12:46 AM, Ralf Gross wrote: >> Thomas Wakefield schrieb: >>> Take a directory, dump it to tape, and it will live forever (roughly >>> 5-10 years) on tape. And the copy on disk will be deleted. But if >>> needed, we could pull the copy back from tape. We could possibly >>> write 2 copies to tape for redundancy. >>> >>> I already use bacula to protect over 100TB of spinning disk. But i >>> have multiple TB of data that my users "might" want to use again, >>> but most likely they don't need it. >> >> We have the same problems here. Large sets of data that might never be >> touched again. To backup this, I setup a second client entry for each >> of the server with a different retention time (30y). After an archive >> was backed up (with a dump of the DB) to tape I change the status of >> the last tape from append to used and put all tapes in a safe. > > I am just starting to use Bacula but one of my interests is > using it to archive old data also. > > Is there any Bacula development policy regarding the compatibility > of new versions of the software with old media? Will I be able > to restore from my Bacula-2.4.4 tapes or dvds with Bacula-6.3 in > 2017? (Obviously sans media degradation.) >
For the 5 to 6 years we have used bacula (since 1.34.0) it has always retained backward compatibility with its media. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
