With Bacula, a great piece of backup software [disclosure: I wrote the PostgreSQL module for Bacula], you can copy a Job after it has run. This is often used to backup first to disk, and then Copy that Job to tape. That is exactly what I’ve been doing recently.
NOTE: You can also migrate […]

*run
A job name must be specified.
The defined Job resources are:
1: BackupCatalog
2: RestoreFiles
3: MigrateDiskToTape
4: CopyMegaFileToTape
5: laptop
6: laptop-vpn
7: laptop-wifi-5.3
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Over the past few months, I’ve been getting ready to copy Bacula backups from disk to tape, via a Copy Job. Tonight was my first attempt. I failed. And I think I know why. Concurrency.
The output so far:

*run job=CopyMegaFileToTape
Using Catalog “MyCatalog”
Run Copy job
JobName: CopyMegaFileToTape
Bootstrap: […]