It is possible. Tape is just another medium and bareos is just another solution that stores data on the tape. There are some issues to tackle though. Firstly, as with normal backup jobs - if you prune records from database you need to read tape contents manually. But that's nothing special, just worth remembering. Secondly, and that's more important - usually if you want to archive the data you might want to keep more than one copy of a given file. And that's where things get tricky. If you have a static set of data to archive, you might just want to run several copies of a full backup job, store them offline and be done with it. That's fairly easy. It's getting way more difficult if your data set grows and you want to make sure that each file is copied at least X times onto different media. You could do that with dynamic fileset contents and some clever scripting querying database to see which files have already been backed up and how many times. But it's nowhere near something standard and easy. But can be done. Did something like that some 8 years ago with bacula but my use case was fairly limited. And - as with any archiving, not just limited to bareos - I assume that while your set of data to archive might be growing, meaning that you get new files, their contents don't change over time. TL;DR - Bareos can be used in archiving process but it might not be straightforward.
MK On Fri, 2025-03-14 at 13:05 -0700, Otto Brandstaetter wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using bareos for more than 8 years or so as a backup > solution for my home servers. > Now, I am thinking about a different thing. > I want to archive to tapes - meaning that I want to backup and delete > stuff afterwards from the disks to save space. If needed, I can > recover it from tapes. > Did anyone do this already? How would the approach be for that? I > mean, does it make sense to move stuff to a "special location" prior > to backup? Where? How to recover in case of emergency? > Best regards and thanks in advance, > Otto > > -- > 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 visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/a605c134-f676-40fc-92c4-55a17e6a372an%40googlegroups.com > [1]. [1] https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/a605c134-f676-40fc-92c4-55a17e6a372an%40googlegroups.com https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/a605c134-f676-40fc-92c4-55a17e6a372an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/0b75a0ba0766212f5ca37554512513d90d66ae1d.camel%40gmail.com.
