Hello,

I'm new to Bacula and need some help with scheduling, pools and well,
backup strategy in general. I will be backing up three clients
(including the server running Bacula) and one 800GB LTO-4 tape drive,
and there will be 'someone' for changing tapes.

The basic idea of the backup strategy is 4 weekly tapes and 1 monthly
tape per month:

* every Friday a tape is changed
    * if it's a first Friday in month, a new tape should be inserted and
it should be auto-labeled with the previous month's name
    * on every other Friday, the next recyclable weekly tape should be
inserted
* every Friday a full backup should be performed
* every other weekday an incremental backup should be performed
* weekly tapes should be recycled after 4 weeks
* monthly tapes should be stored separately for at least one year


To further clarify things, this is what want (the asterisk marks a
Friday / changing tapes):

Date           Tape inserted    Backup level

*  6.1.2012    DECEMBER         Full
   7.1.2012    DECEMBER         none
   8.1.2012    DECEMBER         none
   9.1.2012    DECEMBER         Incremental
  10.1.2012    DECEMBER         Incremental
  11.1.2012    DECEMBER         Incremental
  12.1.2012    DECEMBER         Incremental
* 13.1.2012    WEEK_1           Full
  14.1.2012    WEEK_1           none
  15.1.2012    WEEK_1           none
  16.1.2012    WEEK_1           Incremental
  17.1.2012    WEEK_1           Incremental
  18.1.2012    WEEK_1           Incremental
  19.1.2012    WEEK_1           Incremental
* 20.1.2012    WEEK_2           Full
  21.1.2012    WEEK_2           none
  22.1.2012    WEEK_2           none
  23.1.2012    WEEK_2           Incremental
  24.1.2012    WEEK_2           Incremental
  25.1.2012    WEEK_2           Incremental
  26.1.2012    WEEK_2           Incremental
* 27.1.2012    WEEK_3           Full
  28.1.2012    WEEK_3           none
  29.1.2012    WEEK_3           none
  30.1.2012    WEEK_3           Incremental
  31.1.2012    WEEK_3           Incremental
   1.2.2012    WEEK_3           Incremental
   2.2.2012    WEEK_3           Incremental
*  3.2.2012    JANUARY          Full
   4.2.2012    JANUARY          none
   5.2.2012    JANUARY          none
   6.2.2012    JANUARY          Incremental
   7.2.2012    JANUARY          Incremental
   8.2.2012    JANUARY          Incremental
   9.2.2012    JANUARY          Incremental
* 10.2.2012    WEEK_4           Full
  11.2.2012    WEEK_4           none
  12.2.2012    WEEK_4           none
  13.2.2012    WEEK_4           Incremental
  14.2.2012    WEEK_4           Incremental
  15.2.2012    WEEK_4           Incremental
  16.2.2012    WEEK_4           Incremental
* 17.2.2012    WEEK_1           Full
  18.2.2012    WEEK_1           none
  19.2.2012    WEEK_1           none
  20.2.2012    WEEK_1           Incremental
  21.2.2012    WEEK_1           Incremental
  22.2.2012    WEEK_1           Incremental
  23.2.2012    WEEK_1           Incremental
....
  

So I defined a 'weekly' pool and a 'monthly' pool:

Pool {
  Name = Weekly_Tape
  Pool Type = Backup
  Recycle = yes
  AutoPrune = yes
  Volume Retention = 4 weeks
  Volume Use Duration = 1 week
}

Pool {
  Name = Montly_Tape
  Pool Type = Backup
  Recycle = yes
  AutoPrune = yes  
  Volume Retention = 1 year
  Volume Use Duration = 1 week
  Label Format = "${Months[${Month}]}"
}


But I'm not quite sure how to implement my strategy in 'Schedule'...
Right now I have this:

Schedule {
  Name = "WeeklyCycleTape"
  Run = Level=Full Pool=Montly_Tape 1st fri at 23:05
  Run = Level=Full Pool=Weekly_Tape 2nd-5th fri at 23:05
  Run = Incremental mon-thu at 23:05
}

But that would probably request a tape from the 'weekly' pool every
Monday - Thursday ...


Is it possible to do what I want with Bacula scheduling?

   Danilo








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