Integrate backup to tape

Feature requests
1

I am looking for a way to copy all my backups in UrBackup additional to a tape drive.
I am thinking of simply copying all “current” folders to tape. So I have a full backup of all clients every day.
Is there an existing solution for this?

My favourite would be if it is intergrated in UrBackup so I can see in the webinterface wether the backup was successfull or any errors occured.
Alternativ is there a shell script or other backup solution to acomplish this?

My server is running on linux.

Thank You

2

I have made a little post_incr_filebackup script which save specific hosts on tape.

Suggestions or help with the todos are welcome!
Especially with: If tape backup fails urbackup should fail too.
Does someone knows how I can do this?

3

Return a non-zero exit code (like mentioned in the manual). It is best practice to run bash scripts with set -e so this happens automatically if a command fails.
I’d also compress it (with tar) at least a bit (at least lzop).

4

Thank you I am not so in shell scripting set -e looks good.

The tape drive (LTO-6) has it one compression built in. Do you think it makes sense to use additional compression with tar?

5

Ah ok, didn’t know about the compression. You’d have to test it with your data, and look if the CPU usage wouldn’t get too high (or just leave it be).

6

@uroni Is there any chance that you include a feature like this in UrBackup directly?

My script is now working, but still missing a lot of stuff that would be nice to have. (Database for the tapes, easier restore,…). Before I implement all this in my script, I just wanted to check if you have any plans to include such features directly in UrBackup, which would of course be much nice than my script.