VirtualFull to the same storage daemon and then a Migrate job to the storage daemon with the tape library works.
On Monday, January 5, 2026 at 6:17:48 PM UTC-6 Brock Palen wrote: > Yes that appears to be the case. > What you are describing doing virtual fulls disk to tap for offsite is > what I do but it’s a single sd using sneaker net. > > Maybe you could hack something doing the virtual full as an archive job > then do a copy job the. Delete the fist copy. Sounds convoluted though. > > Maybe you could use an Ethernet to sas gateway or fcoe to use a remote > library from the same sd over your network. Probably expensive depends on > your data volume unless there is an open fcoe implementation similar to > iscsi. > > > Sent from my iPhone > Brock Palen > > On Jan 5, 2026, at 6:09 PM, Jon Schewe <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just found the warning at the bottom of > https://docs.bareos.org/TasksAndConcepts/AlwaysIncrementalBackupScheme.html#virtual-full-jobs > > that states this is the case. > > > > On Monday, January 5, 2026 at 2:23:35 PM UTC-6 Jon Schewe wrote: > >> I see that 11 years ago someone asked about this and the answer was that >> this isn't possible. >> https://bareos-users.narkive.com/Nx9yVsSX/virtual-full-to-another-sd >> >> Is it still the case that one cannot execute a Virtual Full backup >> between storage daemons? >> I've got one setup with access to all of the disk and one with access to >> my tape library and I'd like to do a virtual full from the disk (always >> incremental) to the tape (for offsite). >> >> I tried setting it up and got an error that the storage type isn't >> recognized by the storage daemon. It appears that bareos is trying to read >> the files from the storage daemon that has access to the tape library. >> >> Jon >> >> -- > 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/3c8e9970-27a6-46c4-ac95-e9f08bc93c2dn%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/3c8e9970-27a6-46c4-ac95-e9f08bc93c2dn%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/e9e35bf9-c75d-48b9-8c64-64deaef13043n%40googlegroups.com.
