On Friday 09 March 2007 02:33, Mike Seda wrote: > Hi All, > I too have switched off a few machines lately, and wish to save their > last complete backup to an Archive pool. Basically, I want to migrate a > few jobs from my "Weekly" pool to my "Archive" pool. Fortunately, I too > have one last full backup in the system, but since I only have one tape > drive migration is a bit tricky... I just wanted to run my temporary > solution by you before I implement it (btw, a second tape drive is in > our budget for next fiscal year): > > 1) Mount a 1 TB FC disk array (currently not being utilized) on the > bacula server > 2) Tell bacula the array is of Media Type "File" (my tape library is > Media Type "Tape"), and put it in the "Disk" pool. > 3) Do a migrate job from my "Weekly" pool to the "Disk" Pool. > 4) Do a migrate job from my "Disk" pool to the "Archive" Pool. > > Does this sound like a reasonable solution until I can spring for > another tape drive?...
Obviously migrating with only one tape drive is not optimal, but what you describe sounds feasible. Be sure to mark the tapes you are taking offsite as Archive. We will be very interested to hear how this double migration works for you ... > Fyi, the array is fast (12 x 15 K FC disks in > RAID 5)... > > Fyi, my setup is: > Dell PE 2650 (1 x 73 GB RAID 1, 1 x 450 GB RAID 0 ) > Bacula 2.0.1 (400 GB of Data-Spooling configured to mitigate tape > shoe-shine, Current Pools=Weekly, Scratch) > RHEL 4 AS > Quantum PX502 (LTO-3, FC, 1-Drive) > > Regards, > Mike > > Alan Brown wrote: > > I have a number of machines which have been switched off in the last 6 > > months and want to save their last complete backup to an archive pool in > > order to both free up the main pool and to ensure there's one last copy > > of everything. > > > > In some cases, there is one last full backup in the system, so all that'd > > be required is a single jobID migration > > > > In other cases, the migrated last full backup would have to be made up of > > full+diff+inc > > > > Does anyone have cookiecutter instructions for this? > > > > If so, they should be added to the manual's Migration chapter. > > > > AB > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > > your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > _______________________________________________ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
