Thanks Philip. The Volume Use Duration setting on the Pool is likely what I am looking for.
Regards, Ryan On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 8:58 AM Philip Brown <philip.br...@kiwienglish.es> wrote: > On 6/1/20 10:11 AM, Ryan Sizemore wrote: > > I am setting up bacula and would appreciate some help in understanding > some of the basics. I apologize in advance since some of these questions > are somewhat basic, yet my google abilities have proved fruitless. > > I have a pair of LTO4 drives that want to use to backup ~600GB of data, > which should fit on a single tape (800G uncompressed). I would like to use > this as a "disaster recovery" mechanism from which I can rebuild > everything, so ideally the tapes should be unmounted and stored offsite in > a rotating fashion. > > My plan is to perform monthly full backups and nightly incremental > backups. The first day of the month I would use a new tape, which would > then be used for all of the incremental backups for the rest of the month. > At the start of the next month, I would use a new tape, and the previous > take would be rotated offsite. > > How should I setup the jobs/pools to achieve this? Is there a way to > indicate to bacula should consider a volume as "full" once the next month > starts? Would it be possible to automatically unmount and eject the tape > when it is "done" for the month? > > Regarding the ability to rebuild everything from tape alone, my > understanding from the docs is that I need both the backups (full + > incremental) plus the catalog backup. Is there anything missing here? > > Additionally, when it comes time to change the tape at the start of the > month, what is the notification method? Will bacula generate an email > indicating that the volume needs mounted, or will the first job of the > month fail, indicating that I need to swap tapes? > > Lastly, suppose I define a virtual autochanger for the two drives. If I am > writing to volume 1 for this month, can I mount volume 2 in the second > drive so that bacula will recognize it an simply start the next backup at > the start of the next month? > > Thanks, > > Ryan > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing > listBacula-users@lists.sourceforge.nethttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > Hi Ryan, > > I have done a series of posts on getting started with Bacula. Starting > here: > https://www.pbdigital.org/freebsd/bacula/2019/05/13/bacula-config-part-I-freebsd.html > > Hopefully this may help you. > > Philip > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > -- Ryan Sizemore
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