Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple copies

2009-07-28 17:22:21
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] multiple copies
From: Mike Ruskai <thannyd AT earthlink DOT net>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:17:07 -0400
On 7/28/2009 3:59 PM, Daniel De Marco wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use bacula to keep two independent sets of backups for
> some particular machines. I have two storage daemons setup (one of them
> offsite) so I can't use Migration or Copy Jobs.
>
> My first try has been to setup a second set of jobs to do the backups to
> the offsite location.
> For example for client dummy I have the first job named "BK-dummy" and
> a second one named "BK-dummy-offsite". The two job definitions use
> different Storage and different Pools.
> My understanding is that, since the Job names are different, bacula
> would consider them independent, but what happens is that bacula seems
> to consider both jobs as related in some way. For example if I start an
> incremental backup for BK-dummy-offsite, bacula uses the last backup for
> BK-dummy as reference point if that's the latest job for the client.
> Is there a way to prevent this? One possibility would be to have two
> different Client definitions, but there must be a better solution...
>
>    
I'm pretty sure Bacula considers the file set the backup unit of 
relevance here.  Use two identical but differently-named FileSet 
definitions in the two jobs, and you should get what you want.


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