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I want to know what the best way is for creating a permanent backup to
tape.  I need to create a backup on tape of certain files(a HP 1/8 G2 Tape
Autoloader) and I should keep them at least 2-3 years..  I also need to
have a  failover in case my DB is gone.  Currently I’m still using bacula
2.4.4 on debian.  Can anybody describe what the best way is to create this
archive, best practices,. …?

Thanks

Steven

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I want to know what the best way is for creating a permanent backup to
tape.  I need to create a backup on tape of certain files(a HP 1/8 G2 Tape
Autoloader) and I should keep them at least 2-3 years..  I also need to
have a  failover in case my DB is gone.  Currently I’m still using bacula
2.4.4 on debian.  Can anybody describe what the best way is to create this
archive, best practices,. …?


I done the same implementing something like GFS algorithm and keeping a :
File Retention = 12 months
Job Retention = 12 months

so I can select job and restore files in 12 months, if I need
something older I use bscan

ciao
Mauro

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I want to know what the best way is for creating a permanent backup to
tape.  I need to create a backup on tape of certain files(a HP 1/8 G2 Tape
Autoloader) and I should keep them at least 2-3 years..  I also need to
have a  failover in case my DB is gone.  Currently I’m still using bacula
2.4.4 on debian.  Can anybody describe what the best way is to create this
archive, best practices,. …?


I use tapes from a pool that has the recycle flag off for all jobs
that I want to never recycle. For the failover database you can get
that from the tapes themselves using the bacula volume tools.

John

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Can you give me examples of he bacula volume tools

Don't you have to set the retention period of the volumes and the files
or...?

sg

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Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] permanent backup

I want to know what the best way is for creating a permanent backup to
tape.  I need to create a backup on tape of certain files(a HP 1/8 G2
Tape
Autoloader) and I should keep them at least 2-3 years..  I also need to
have a  failover in case my DB is gone.  Currently I’m still using
bacula
2.4.4 on debian.  Can anybody describe what the best way is to create
this
archive, best practices,. …?


I use tapes from a pool that has the recycle flag off for all jobs
that I want to never recycle. For the failover database you can get
that from the tapes themselves using the bacula volume tools.

John
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On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:06:26 -0500
John Drescher <drescherjm < at > gmail.com> wrote:

I want to know what the best way is for creating a permanent backup
to tape.  I need to create a backup on tape of certain files(a HP
1/8 G2 Tape Autoloader) and I should keep them at least 2-3
years..  I also need to have a  failover in case my DB is gone.
Currently I’m still using bacula 2.4.4 on debian.  Can anybody
describe what the best way is to create this archive, best
practices,. …?


I use tapes from a pool that has the recycle flag off for all jobs
that I want to never recycle. For the failover database you can get
that from the tapes themselves using the bacula volume tools.

John

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Another way to get failover of your database (if you use mysql) is
Replication.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replication.html

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On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Steven Geerts
<steven.geerts < at > softathome.com> wrote:
Can you give me examples of he bacula volume tools


From the manual:

http://www.bacula.org/3.0.x-manuals/en/utility/utility/Volume_Utility_Tools.html#SECTION00272000000000000000

John

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