I've been evaluating Bacula to use for backing up a Linux+Samba fileserver
and a few other Linux application servers to tape. Right now, some
Windows servers in the same machine-room are backed up as daily full
backups on a weekly rotation, using BackupExec. Someone goes in once a
day during business hours, puts away last night's tape, and inserts the
tape for the current day; the backup runs some time during the night.
It seems like we could force this to happen with backup pools, one pool for
each weekday night. However, I'm not sure how that would interact with
holidays and with the second set of tapes that are kept off-site. Is there
a way to tell Bacula to "use whatever tape is in the drive, no matter
what"?
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David Lee Lambert
Software Developer, Precision Motor Transport Group, LLC
work phone 517-349-3011 x223
cell phone 586-873-8813
e-mail dlambert < at > bm...
