Re: Backing up to USB disks - Archival of data?

On 9/5/24 18:46, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote:

Hello.

> When using multiple removable disks, I would recommend Josh Fisher's 
> excellent "vchanger"
> 
> You can find it here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vchanger/

While I endorse this suggestion, I use this software and I'm even the 
port maintainer for FreeBSD, I think the OP is asking for something 
different.

Vchanger is excellent if you rotate disk regularly as a 
daily/weekly/monthly task.

The OP, however, wants to "replace the disk every now and then and keep 
the old as an archival copy". I guess "archival copy" means they want 
Bacula to forget about that disk.
In that case I wouldn't bother with vchanger.

Just swap the disk with a new one; of course Bacula won't be able to 
restore from any of the volume on that disk, unless you put it back online.
Eventually the job/files will be purged from the catalog: in that case 
using bscan/bextract will be the only way to perform a restore from 
those volumes.

  bye
	av.