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Re: [Bacula-users] Retention/recycle/purge settings for disk based backup

2011-01-26 16:56:46
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Retention/recycle/purge settings for disk based backup
From: Paulo Martinez <martinezino AT googlemail DOT com>
To: bacula-users <bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:22:00 +0100
Hi Jeremy,


Am 26.01.2011 um 14:46 schrieb Jeremy Maes:
> Hey
>
> I've been working on gradually implementing bacula with all of our  
> clients as the new backup solution. Usually we run a standard GFS  
> rotation scheme to tape. However I've run into a special case today:
>
> I need to backup our linux server to a foreign share on a different  
> machine. The share can only ever contain a single volume at a time  
> to save space. This volume then gets backed up by the sysadmin to  
> tape. (out of my hands/control)
>
> So my idea was to do regular backups with volumes in our usual  
> Monday, Tuesday..., Weekly and Monthly pools, but remove the  
> existing volume on the share with a script in a runbefore job. When  
> emulating this however bacula will always look for the Monday,  
> Tuesday, ... volume that was used the week before, as it's retention  
> has expired, even tho recycling has been turned off. But this volume  
> no longer exists on the disk.
>
> Is there a way to tell bacula to create a new volume every time, yet  
> still keep all the relevant information in the database so we can do  
> day-restores up to a week ago, week restores for a couple of weeks,  
> etc?


i guess

Pool {

  Maximum Volume Jobs = 1

}

force the next job to be on the new volume.

Cheers

PM




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