Thanks for all the answers. Basically it sounds like bacula doesn't have anything for native archive support which is what i expected. So i will do something along the lines of what everyone else does.
On Jan 12, 2010, at 9:43 AM, John Drescher 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 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
