Re: [Bacula-users] long-term archival of tapes -- growth of the catalog

2011-09-22 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Ben Walton wrote: > Not sure if this would work for you (especially as it requires some up > front choices) but this is what I'm looking at here. I did some small > tests with it and it seemed to work fine. > > Each host has a dedicated storage pool and storage device (

Re: [Bacula-users] long-term archival of tapes -- growth of the catalog

2011-09-22 Thread Ben Walton
Excerpts from Gavin McCullagh's message of Thu Sep 22 04:07:15 -0400 2011: Hi Gavin, > Is there any sign of development on shifting data between SDs? I know we > had a conversation on this list about it about 18 months ago and there was > some interest and even some sponsorship. Not sure if thi

Re: [Bacula-users] long-term archival of tapes -- growth of the catalog

2011-09-22 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Dan Langille wrote: > > Do other people do this? > > I do Copy to tape. Be aware: your tape drive must be on the same SD as > your disk storage. Copy and migrate jobs can involve only one SD. You > cannot copy/migrate from one SD to another. Gah. I had forgotten tha

Re: [Bacula-users] long-term archival of tapes -- growth of the catalog

2011-09-21 Thread Dan Langille
On Sep 21, 2011, at 6:04 AM, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > Hi, > > we've been happily using Bacula now for a few years, with a couple of big > disk arrays as the storage devices/media. We use something along the lines > of what the manual documents for fully automated disk-based backups. This > has

Re: [Bacula-users] long-term archival of tapes -- growth of the catalog

2011-09-21 Thread John Drescher
> Do other people do this?  If so, how do you deal with pruning?  Do you just > let the database grow over time or do you let the data get pruned and use > bscan or other low-level volume tools to read them if necessary?  Is there > another approach I'm missing? > I let the database grow. My postg

[Bacula-users] long-term archival of tapes -- growth of the catalog

2011-09-21 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, we've been happily using Bacula now for a few years, with a couple of big disk arrays as the storage devices/media. We use something along the lines of what the manual documents for fully automated disk-based backups. This has worked well and is really quick and convenient for doing restores