Re: [Bacula-users] keep a backup forever?

[Bruno F. <br...@io...>]

On 12/13/2010 06:41 PM, hymie! wrote:
> 
> Greetings.
> 
> I've been using bacula 3.0.2 (server) and 3.0.3 (clients) on my linux boxes
> for a while now, and I'm very happy.  I'm using FileStorage with 200 volumes
> on an external USB disk drive.
> 
> I had a machine die on me, and I had to replace it this week.  Bacula
> has been of invaluable help.
> 
> Before I put the new (replacement) machine into the backup system, I
> would like to know if there is a way that I can save the last bacukp(s)
> of the original (now-dead) machine for longer than my 3-month rotation
> schedule, just in case.
> 
> I'm not afraid of diving into the database, if the answer is something
> like "find the job(s) in the database and update the expiration on those
> jobs", but I might need some pointers as to what specifically needs to
> be updated.
> 
> Failing that, if I were to store the volume files that contain my last
> backup(s), is there a way that I can, in the future, get bacula to reload
> the information off those volumes and retrieve data from the backups they
> contain?
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> --hymie!    http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie    hy...@la...
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 

You can put the status Archive on the volume, and normally bacula avoid to touch it.
(even with dbcheck) but I would prefer to have a dev confirmation about that one.


If you store your media, there's always a way to get back the informations on it.
bscan, bls, bextract are the chapter in doc you want to read :-)


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