Author: Craig Ringer <craig AT postnewspapers.com DOT au>
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:36:38 +0800
Hi I'm sure many people using disk-based storage find that, like me, they have three pools defined for almost every job or at least class of job, like this: Pool { Name = "SystemFullPool" Storage = "
Author: Kevin Keane <subscription AT kkeane DOT com>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 03:00:28 -0700
I second this idea. Maybe you could turn it into a feature request (see the Web site for instructions on how to do that). Your idea would solve very nicely solve one really ugly problem: when manuall
Author: Matija Nalis <mnalis+bacula AT CARNet DOT hr>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 12:35:55 +0200
You could use standard include ("@") feature of bacula configuration files, for example: in /etc/bacula/pool-default-values.conf: Storage = "SystemStorage" Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune
Author: Craig Ringer <craig AT postnewspapers.com DOT au>
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:57:40 +0800
Yep, that bites me all the time, and is a large part of why I suggested it. It's a real headache, whether the job is manually run or not. A related problem that gets me is that due to the inflexibili
Author: Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:45:32 -0400
Well, actually, no, it looks like a way of complicating pool definition, not simplifying it. Because under this scheme, the pool syntax would have to contain level-specific overrides for essentially
Author: Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:52:55 -0400
Actually, this is a problem which has largely been fixed in Bacula-3 and later, by changing the way overrides work. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 alaric AT caerllewys
Author: Kevin Keane <subscription AT kkeane DOT com>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:26:15 -0700
Officially, yes, I've been reading that it was deprecated, but it still works in 3.0.3. And I hope it will continue to work. I'd HATE to have to learn Python just to replace this simple little line.
Author: Kevin Keane <subscription AT kkeane DOT com>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:28:48 -0700
Really? I see this problem in bacula 3.0.3 all the time. Maybe I need to change something in my configuration to take advantage of this new feature. How is it supposed to work? -- Download Intel
Author: Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:59:21 -0400
I can confirm that it still works in 5.x as well. I use this for disk volumes: Label Format = "FULL-$Year${Month:p/2/0/r}${Day:p/2/0/r}-${Hour:p/2/0/r}:${Minute:p/2/0/r}" (with alterations for Differ
Author: Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:05:17 -0400
The old Schedule-based overrides are still *supported* in 3.0.3, for backward compatibility, but are deprecated - precisely because of the problem you note - in favor of the following example syntax:
Author: Craig Ringer <craig AT postnewspapers.com DOT au>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:42:17 +0800
If it's not going to be removed and replaced with something 10x as complicated, perhaps it should be un-deprecated? Oh well, I'll use it if it still works. It's not like I can't port the config over
Author: Craig Ringer <craig AT postnewspapers.com DOT au>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:54:01 +0800
Yeah, that works ... when you only need to control pools based on job level. My problem is that sometimes I need to control other job attibutes, such as spooling, by job level. The mechanism just nee
Author: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 10:44:19 +0100
It isn't very flexible though. E.g. the "Daily, Weekly, Monthly" example in the manual uses two different pools for Full backups at different times, with appropriate retention times to keep the Mont
Author: Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:26:56 -0400
As far as I know, there are no plans at this time to actually remove that functionality. I'm not really clear on why it was deprecated. Part of what's going on is that Bacula has explored several dif
Author: Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:28:51 -0400
This is a good suggestion, I think. I'd go ahead and write it up and submit it. :) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 alaric AT caerllewys DOT net alaric AT metrocast DOT
Author: Craig Ringer <craig AT postnewspapers.com DOT au>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:41:27 +0800
While I don't care the tiniest bit about the whitespace issue, I used to swear at Python very frequently because: - The dev team's answer to any embedding issues is "you're doing it wrong. You should
Author: Kevin Keane <subscription AT kkeane DOT com>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 00:19:15 -0700
You know, I feel stupid. I immediately went to implement this mechanism - and then realized that I had actually done it already and forgotten about it! I had gotten confused by the run command in bc