Basically I think I have the following options:
1. Have a admin job call a script which enables/disables volumes
comparing dates with holiday dates to be run in advance of every backup
session.
Requires extensive scripting and does not allow for manual disablement
of volumes.
2. Move a week pool definition to system where every day has it's own Pool.
Not difficult. Just many extra lines in bacula-dir.conf and requires
catalog maintenance.
3. add to my config: Recycle Current Volume = yes
I think that is also the sequence of options which requires most work to
the least work.
Option 2 sounds the safest.
However on the subject of option 3:
Will it honor retention times:
If for instance tape "Monday" is inserted on Tuesday will Bacula error
and demand the Tuesday-volume/tape to be inserted or will it overwrite
the Monday tape although the Monday-volume-retentiontime is not yet reached?
Regards
Olaf
Martin Simmons wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 26 May 2009 15:17:50 +0200, Olaf Zevenboom said:
>>>>>>
>> Dear List,
>>
>> We have got a single-slot tapedrive and therefor do not have the luxury
>> of letting Bacula decide which volume/tape to use. So our configuration
>> forces Bacula to use a Monday-volume(tape), a Tuesday-volume(tape) etc.
>> I have implemented a RunBeforeJob which checks if the current date is a
>> holiday or not and forces the backup to be canceled if needed.
>> However this leads to the need of multiple manual interventions as soon
>> as the holidayperiod has ended: when a pool of volumes is pruned for
>> instance the Monday volume gets pruned and on Tuesday (not being a
>> holiday) Bacula want the oldest available volume being the Monday
>> volume. The next day same issue. This obviously continues until the
>> retention-period in that pool is reached again.
>>
>> How can I let Bacula skip that volume one more entire retention period
>> (through a script)?
>>
>
> Have you tried adding
>
> Recycle Current Volume = yes
>
> to the pool?
>
> Alternatively, you could have a pool for each day of the week.
>
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