Solved - and I think I uncovered a bug in bacula in the process. First, 
the schedule I posted actually works; I had made one innocuous change 
before posting that turned out to be the problem: unlike other parts of 
the configuration file, the Schedule resource does not understand a 
space in the "Incremental Pool" or "Differential Pool" keyword.

The version that fails silently without any error message:

Schedule {
  Name = "WeeklyCycle1"
  Run = Level=Full Full Pool=Full-1-Pool Differential Pool=Diff-1-Pool 
Incremental Pool=Inc-1-Pool on 1 at 23:05
}

The version that works:

Schedule {
  Name = "WeeklyCycle1"
  Run = Level=Full FullPool=Full-1-Pool DifferentialPool=Diff-1-Pool 
IncrementalPool=Inc-1-Pool on 1 at 23:05
}

Apparently, in the first version, the parser first finds the word "Full" 
and then the word "Differential" and then the word "Incremental" and 
interprets all of them as part of the Level= override, and uses the last 
one that occurred.


Kevin Keane wrote:
> I am trying to use a schedule to alternate between two different hard 
> disks, and it doesn't behave as expected. I'm using bacula 2.4.2. I'd 
> appreciate some help debugging my schedule. Here is the idea:
>
> - On the first through the 15th of the month, use disk 1. On the 16th 
> through 31st, use disk 2.
> - A full backup every time I switch from one to the other disk
> - A Diff backup in the middle of the cycle, on the 7th and 22nd.
> - No backup the day after a full or differential backup (some of these 
> backup jobs are large and a full backup may take more than a day to 
> complete).
>
> I am using three pools for each hard disk, one for Full, one for 
> Differential and one for Incremental backups. Full-1-Pool, Diff-1-Pool 
> and Inc-1-Pool are on disk 1, Full-2-Pool, Diff-2-Pool, Inc-2-Pool are 
> on disk 2.
>
> Based on this, today, on the 1st of December, the schedule should have 
> performed a full backup into Full-1-Pool. But instead, it performed an 
> incremental backup into Inc-1-Pool.
>
> Schedule {
>   Name = "WeeklyCycle1"
>   Run = Level=Full FullPool=Full-1-Pool DifferentialPool=Diff-1-Pool 
> IncrementalPool=Inc-1-Pool on 1 at 23:05
>   Run = Level=Full FullPool=Full-2-Pool DifferentialPool=Diff-2-Pool 
> IncrementalPool=Inc-2-Pool on 16 at 23:05
>   Run = Level=Differential FullPool=Full-1-Pool 
> DifferentialPool=Diff-1-Pool IncrementalPool=Inc-1-Pool on 7 at 23:05
>   Run = Level=Differential FullPool=Full-2-Pool 
> DifferentialPool=Diff-2-Pool IncrementalPool=Inc-2-Pool on 22 at 23:05
>   Run = Level=Incremental FullPool=Full-1-Pool 
> DifferentialPool=Diff-1-Pool IncrementalPool=Inc-1-Pool on 3-6,9-14 at 23:05
>   Run = Level=Incremental FullPool=Full-2-Pool 
> DifferentialPool=Diff-2-Pool IncrementalPool=Inc-2-Pool on 18-21,24-31 
> at 23:05
> }
>
> JobDefs {
>   Name = "DefaultJob"
>   Type = Backup
>   Level = Incremental
>   Client = yyyyy-fd
>   FileSet = "Full Set"
>   Schedule = "WeeklyCycle1"
>   Messages = Standard
>   Priority = 10
>   Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/working/%n.bsr"
>   Pool = Default
>   Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20
> }
>
> Client {
>   Name = XXX-fd
>   Address = XXXX
>   FDPort = 9102
>   Catalog = MyCatalog
>   Password = "XXXXX"
>   File Retention = 30 days
>   Job Retention = 6 months
>   Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10
>   AutoPrune = yes
> }
> Job {
>   Name = "xxxx"
>   Client = XXXX-fd
>   Schedule = "WeeklyCycle1"
>   JobDefs = "DefaultJob"
>   Run Before Job = "/usr/local/sbin/nagiosscheduledowntime XXXXX"
>   FileSet = "XXXX"
> }
>
>
>   


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