Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] File Set and Compression

2009-04-06 18:16:48
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] File Set and Compression
From: Maria McKinley <maria AT shadlen DOT org>
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:10:36 -0700
John Drescher wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Maria McKinley <maria AT shadlen DOT org> 
> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I posted this a bit ago, but didn't receive a response, so thought I
>> would try again...
>>
>> I would like to have most of the jobs I run to be compressed and put on
>> disk, but I want the daily incremental to be put on tape, which means
>> letting the hardware do compression. It looks like the only way to do
>> this is to define a separate FileSet for the jobs done nightly than for
>> the jobs done weekly. However, I'm pretty sure that this will mean that
>> the daily is truly a separate job, and will not recognize the weekly
>> full backup as the same job, even though they are the same files, and
>> will thus not 'reset' every week to the current weekly backup, and will
>> continue to indefinitely do incremental to the full set it will want to
>> do when I start the bacula daemon. Is there any way around this, or
>> should I just move entirely to disk?
>>
> 
> If you are just talking about incrementals I would just let the
> compression run. You are correct that this new fileset will make it
> look like a different job and it will promote the first to a full.
> 
> John

I guess that means you can't over-ride it in the Storage resource? Now 
that I think about it, it seems a little strange to me that this is 
configured in the FileSet resource instead of the Storage resource.

thanks,
maria

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