Hi Arno, Many thanks for this, it makes sense.
One question though. There are 2 laptops that need backing up and they are
not always connected to the network at the same time. How do people normally
configure Bacula to back-up laptops like this?
TIA
Cheers
Glyn
Arno Lehmann wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> 15.01.2010 08:25, Glyn wrote:
>> Using 3.0.2 on Ubuntu 8.04 server with MySQL.
>>
>> It is now Friday of the 2nd week of January so the schedule A with Pool
>> A should be used, I would have thought. However, this morning at 9:05 I
>> get a message asking for a volume of drive B to be labelled. From Monday
>> to Thursday the A schedule was used correctly but now suddenly on
>> Friday, it wants to switch to the B schedule.
>> Maybe I have something wrong in the dir.conf? The schedule section is
>> below and any help would be appreciated.
>
> Given the number of schedules you have, you also have different backup
> jobs set up.
>
> A backup job can only be based upon previous backups of the same job.
>
> To achieve what you want, only use one job, and a schedule like
>
> Schedule {
> Name = "WeeklyCycleAB"
> Run = Incremental Pool = Incr-Pool-B 1st, 3rd, 5th mon-fri at 19:05
> Run = Full Pool = Full-Pool-B 1st, 3rd, 5th sat at 02:05
> Run = Incremental Pool = Incr-Pool-A 2nd, 4th mon-fri at 19:05
> Run = Full Pool = Full-Pool-A 2nd, 4th Sat at 02:05
> }
>
> That should help :-)
>
> Arno
>
>> # When to do the backups
>> Schedule {
>> Name = "WeeklyCycleB"
>> Run = Incremental Pool = Incr-Pool-B 1st, 3rd, 5th mon-fri at 19:05
>> Run = Full Pool = Full-Pool-B 1st, 3rd, 5th sat at 02:05
>> }
>>
>> Schedule {
>> Name = "DayTimeB"
>> Run = Incremental Pool = Incr-Pool-B 1st, 3rd, 5th tue-fri at 09:05
>> Run = Full Pool = Full-Pool-B 1st, 3rd, 5th mon at 09:05
>> }
>>
>> Schedule {
>> Name = "WeeklyCycleA"
>> Run = Incremental Pool = Incr-Pool-A 2nd, 4th mon-fri at 19:05
>> Run = Full Pool = Full-Pool-A 2nd, 4th Sat at 02:05
>> }
>>
>> Schedule {
>> Name = "DayTimeA"
>> Run = Incremental Pool = Incr-Pool-A 2nd, 4th tue-fri at 09:05
>> Run = Full Pool = Full-Pool-A 2nd, 4th mon at 09:05
>> }
>>
>> # This schedule does the catalog. It starts after the WeeklyCycle
>> Schedule {
>> Name = "WeeklyCycleAfterBackupB"
>> Run = Full 1st, 3rd, 5th mon-fri at 19:10
>> }
>>
>> Schedule {
>> Name = "WeeklyCycleAfterBackupA"
>> Run = Full 2nd, 4th mon-fri at 19:10
>> }
>>
>>
>> Schedule {
>> Name = "DayTimeAfterBackupB"
>> Run = Full 1st, 3rd, 5th mon-fri at 09:10
>> }
>>
>> Schedule {
>> Name = "DayTimeAfterBackupA"
>> Run = Full 2nd, 4th mon-fri at 09:10
>> }
>>
>
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