Hello,

03.12.2009 20:03, Alessandro Bono wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm trying to implement a backup strategy where every week a full backup
> is done on a file storage, after that a copy is done on a tape for
> offsite storage (I'll use mailslot of hp storageworks 1/8) and finally
> migrate backup to tape
>
> To summarize I have 3 pools
>
> diskpool
> tapepool
> offsitepool
>
> I want to do a full backup to diskpool
> copy full backup from diskpool to offsitepool
> migrate full backup from diskpool to tapepool
>
> I tried but don't know how to specify NextPool correctly for the two
> operation copy and migration
>
> Is it possible to do this type of thing? Is there a better way to
> accomplish the same result?

As there is only one NextPool setting available, you'll have to work
around that, but it is possible AFAIK. (By the way - on bacula-devel,
there's some discussion regarding introduction of overrides for the
NextPool setting. You might be interested to join that.)

You can set up a "fake" pool with the second NextPool target, and then
use SQLquery as a job selection scheme. The NextPool is taken from the
pool setting, and the actual jobs to move are selected by the SQL,
choosing volumes from a different pool. Should work, though I haven't
tested it yet.