Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Separating Full backups from incremental in the volumes.

2012-12-10 11:50:03
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Separating Full backups from incremental in the volumes.
From: Bill Arlofski <waa-bacula AT revpol DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:46:41 -0500
On 12/10/12 11:19, Luis H. Forchesatto wrote:
> Its possible to separate full and incremental backups from the same client
> in separated volumes.
> 
> The client has one full backup weekly and for the other 6 days it has an
> incremental backup. I would like to keep the full backup separated and all
> the incremental backups that is run during the week be stored in a single
> volume.

Hi Louis,

Yes, you can do this withing a Schedule:

An example is below, but it kind of funny.

Basically it says Run a full on the 1st Friday at 9:30pm and write to the
File-Full pool.

Then, run differentials all the other possible Fridays at 9:30pm and write to
the File-Diff pool.  However, if the job gets upgraded to a full backup by
Bacula, then writ tot he File-Full pool

Finally, for all other days do an incremental backup, and write to the
File-Inc pool. However, if the job is upgraded by Bacula to Differential then
write to the File-Diff pool, and if the job is upgraded to a full backup by
Bacula then write to the File-Full pool.

This way, a full backup will be on 1 volume (unless of course it spans more
than one), your diffs will be on one volume, and your incs will be on another
volume.

You can do more, (or less) with this type of setup, but I hope this helps get
the point across.

(each line starting with the word "Run" should be 1 line but it wraps in my
email client.)

Schedule {
  Name = Client_X_Weekly
  Run = Full         pool=File-Full
     1st     fri at 21:30

  Run = Differential pool=File-Dill FullPool=File-Full
     2nd-5th fri at 21:30

  Run = Incremental  pool=File-Inc  FullPool=File-Full
     DifferentialPool=File-Diff  mon-thu,sat,sun at 21:30
}



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