Re: Copy a tape with a single drive...

Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Jan 2025 22:21:06 +0000

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On 1/31/25 9:46 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote:
 >
 > As stated by Marcin, and to stay in the «there's everyday a new thing to
> learn in bacula», 

heh.. Yes this is true. We show a humorous image (origin unknown) during the Bacula Admin I course. It is titled something 
like "The Bacula Learning Curve", and instead of a typical gently slanted/sloped line, it is an overhanging cliff with people 
falling/flying/jumping off... :)

But, like I always tell people; "Bacula is practically infinitely flexible, but with all of this flexibility comes some level 
of complexity in understanding it."

Personally, I prefer it this way. :)

i've discovered bcopy... ;-)

Yeah, I was thinking of mentioning this, but since you only have one tape drive, I put it out of my mind.

I guess you could simply set up a disk-based storage and pool, bcopy from tape to file-based media in this new pool, then 
bcopy from that disk-based media to another tape.

Personally, I would recommend creating some disk-based storage and pool(s), and an Autochanger with minimum 10 virtual drive 
devices, then write your backups to this new storage and run copy jobs to tapes with longer retention periods. Then, you can 
also run the same copy job more than once to more than one tape and have fast disk-based restores with multiple 
onsite/offsite copy jobs on tapes.

Not sure if this scenario would work in your environment.

> I'll give it a try and provide feedback. thanks to all!

Good luck!

Best regards,
Bill

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Bill Arlofski
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