> 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 have a 2 archive pools for this with no recycling. If I take something offline completely I make sure that both archive pools have 1 full backup of whatever data. I do this by creating new jobs in bacula specifically to archive each dataset I remove. 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
