Re: [bareos-users] Always Incremental with One Tape Drive

2023-12-26 Thread Brock Palen
Doesn’t work, During the consolidation of a full, you have to read back from teh full pool and write to the full pool. So you always need to have 2 working devices, one to read, one to write to the AI-Consolidate pool. That’s why in my setup tape is really a pool to ‘migrate to make space’

Re: [bareos-users] Always Incremental with One Tape Drive

2023-12-23 Thread Russell Harmon
On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 17:21 Brock Palen wrote: > Correct. Because when you run your consolidate with a full it has to read > the old full likely from your tape drive. So it has to write to disk. > What if I flip things around: use disk for incrementals and tape for full? Would I then just

Re: [bareos-users] Always Incremental with One Tape Drive

2023-12-23 Thread Brock Palen
Correct. Because when you run your consolidate with a full it has to read the old full likely from your tape drive. So it has to write to disk. Sent from my iPhoneBrock PalenOn Dec 23, 2023, at 3:43 PM, Russell Harmon wrote:On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 10:49 Brock Palen

Re: [bareos-users] Always Incremental with One Tape Drive

2023-12-23 Thread Russell Harmon
On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 10:49 Brock Palen wrote: > I do this and it works but it has some bugs that are reported but not had > progress in few years. > > My setup is: > > Disk Pools: > AI-Incremental > AI-Consolidated > > Tape Pool: > LTO > Offsite > > I run the AI setup on the disk pools but I

Re: [bareos-users] Always Incremental with One Tape Drive

2023-12-23 Thread Brock Palen
I do this and it works but it has some bugs that are reported but not had progress in few years. My setup is: Disk Pools: AI-Incremental AI-Consolidated Tape Pool: LTO Offsite I run the AI setup on the disk pools but I use a Migration Job to migrate AI-Consolidated jobs to Offsite. This is