On 01/13/2010 02:09 PM, Martin Simmons wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:38:08 -0600, Jon Schewe said:
>>>>>>             
>> I have standard backups (incremental, differential, full) going to tape
>> using a pool named Default. I have weekly full backups going to an
>> external drive using a pool named Offsite. Now when I do a restore I
>> would like bacula to only consider the backups in the Default pool and
>> to ignore those in the Offsite pool. Is this possible?
>>     
> No.
>
>   
That's too bad. Can it be specified by job? Since I have different jobs
for offsite and standard, one could possibly differentiate based upon that.

>   
>> Related question: When bacula is considering which is the most recent
>> full backup to compute differences for a differential backup will it
>> consider all job definitions and thus consider my Offsite pool? Or will
>> it just consider just the currently running Job definition and thus use
>> only the Default pool (tapes)?
>>     
> It will consider the most recent occurrence of the named job with level Full.
>
> If you have a single job definition doing both standard and offsite backups,
> then there is a danger that the differential will be based relative to the
> offsite backup.  It might be better to define a separate job for the offsite
> backup, using the same client and fileset as the regular job.
>   
I have separate job definitions, so I should OK here.

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