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 a […]
*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 8: laptop-verify 9: laptop-websites 10: laptop-xp 11: wocker 12: bast basic 13: bast home 14: dbclone basic 15: dbclone home 16: polo basic 17: polo 18: kraken basic 19:
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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: *None* Client: wocker-fd FileSet: wocker
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