My backup scheme is: 1. Data on my NAS is replicated in near-real-time to a hot standby (not using Bareos). Both the NAS and hot standby carry 15-minute-granularity snapshots. 2. The NAS is backed up to tape with a standard (default, even) full/incremental/differential scheme using 1 tape drive in a library.
That makes 3 copies in 2 formats, but there is still a missing piece: physical location diversity (the 1 in 3-2-1). I would like to regularly extract a set of tapes containing a recent full backup (for each fileset on each client) to store offsite. I understand that using a copy job would be one way to do this, but because reading or writing a full backup is very slow and I only have one tape drive, this isn't an attractive option. So my plan is to select the media for a recent collection of Full backups and remove those from the library. I suppose I will set volstatus=Archive on the removed tapes so that Bareos doesn't try to re-cycle tapes that are not physically present in the library. I don't want to "manually" identify the set of tapes, because the consequences of error are so huge (inability to fully recover following a site loss event). But for my purposes, having slightly out-of-date offsite backups is an acceptable trade-off. Does anybody have a script which I can use to identify the media that should be removed for offsite storage? Thanks, James. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/CAGwX765BpGurxFZEC-0aUr4NhkwOd9hGsnZjHW64yL0GF4PJ8w%40mail.gmail.com.
