Thanks Uwe for clearing out doubts. Appreciate it.
Regards, Sachin -----Original Message----- From: Uwe Schuerkamp [mailto:uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net] Sent: Freitag, 16. März 2012 11:08 To: Holikar, Sachin (ext) Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula Offsite Backups On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 03:49:40PM +0100, Holikar, Sachin (ext) wrote: > > Thanks Uwe for the reply. > > I request some explanation here. > You suggested : > > 1. Create a separate offsite pool and then after use, remove them as > necessary from the autochanger and set their volume status to "Archive" using > the "update volume" bconsole command. > > You meant that after making the volume status as Archive , we can > remove the tapes from the library and keep offsite. Correct? > The documentation says "All the files contained on an Archived Volume > are removed from the Catalog." Is it true ? > Then how do we make sure that the data would be intact with all > previous records when the actual offsite tapes are required to be > inserted/restored back in the library ? > > Please clarify. So far I've only had one case where an archived volume was required shortly after I had removed it from the changer. I simply re-inserted the volume, set its status to "FULL" and modified the autochanger slot and bacula went on and happily restored stuff off that volume without a problem. As pointed out in some other post, this may not be the "best practise" way to archive volumes, but we're only just now starting to dig into copy & migrate jobs and some of the more fancy features bacula provides, so take my advice with at least a grain of salt. > Why there is need to erase the tapes which are archived ?? Please > explain. > This are generally older archive tapes that are meant to re-enter the backup cycle, so I delete the volume from the catalog and then provide them with a new label. Of course you could also just re-enter the older archived tapes and then set them to "full" and assign a slot as outlined above. Cheers, Uwe -- NIONEX --- Ein Unternehmen der Bertelsmann AG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users