[Bacula-users] A question about Virtual Fulls

I've been semi-successful with doing daily incrementals, and then a VirtualFull at the end of the month. However, after two months of doing this, the virtual full wants lasts months virtual full. This isn't working because the File device cannot read and write simultaneously to itself... It appears to be a chicken and the egg problem that I don't know how to work around.

Here is my schedule:

Schedule {
    Name = "1am"
    Run = Incremental mon-sun at 01:30
}

Schedule {
    Name = "1am-vf"
    Run = VirtualFull 3rd sun at 01:30
}

A client has two jobs, one for the first Full and incrementals, and another job for the virtual full.

Job {
    Name = "client-a"
    Type = Backup
    Level = Incremental
    FileSet = "client-a FileSet"
    Client = "client-a"
    Storage = FileStorageD2
    Pool = client-a-File
    Schedule = "1am"
    Messages = Standard
    Priority = 10
    Write Bootstrap = "/var/db/bacula/%c.bsr"
    Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10
    Reschedule On Error = yes
    Reschedule Interval = 1 hour
    Reschedule Times = 8
    Allow Duplicate Jobs = no
}

Job {
    Name = "client-a-vf"
    Type = Backup
    Level = VirtualFull
    FileSet = "client-a FileSet"
    Client = "client-a"
    Storage = VF_FileStorageD2
    Pool = client-a-File
    Schedule = "1am-vf"
    Messages = Standard
    Priority = 10
    Write Bootstrap = "/var/db/bacula/%c.bsr"
    Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10
    Reschedule On Error = yes
    Reschedule Interval = 1 hour
    Reschedule Times = 8
    Allow Duplicate Jobs = no
}

Each client has two pools and two devices it can write to:

Pool {
    Name = client-a-File
    Pool Type = Backup
    Recycle = yes
    AutoPrune = yes
    Volume Retention = 1 months
    Maximum Volume Bytes = 5G
    Maximum Volumes = 100
    LabelFormat = "client-aFileVol"
    Maximum Volume Jobs = 5
    Next Pool = client-a-vf
    Storage = FileStorageD2
}

Pool {
    Name = client-a-vf
    Pool Type = Backup
    Recycle = yes
    AutoPrune = yes
    Volume Retention = 1 months
    Maximum Volume Bytes = 5G
    Maximum Volumes = 100
    LabelFormat = "client-aVFVol"
    Maximum Volume Jobs = 5
    Storage = VF_FileStorageD2
}

One the filesystem, it ends up looking like this (I have a drive##, and a separate volume for virtual fulls called vf_drive##):

# ls -l drive02/wiki*
-rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 5368447065 Feb 17 01:11 drive02/client-aFileVol3000
-rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 5368447173 Feb 17 01:19 drive02/client-aFileVol3004
-rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 4866003704 Feb 21 01:00 drive02/client-aFileVol3006
-rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 2008089223 Feb 26 01:00 drive02/client-aFileVol3134
-rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula   136824584 Mar 3 01:00 drive02/client-aFileVol3295
-rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula   236109713 Mar 10 01:00 drive02/client-aFileVol4272
-rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula   119846566 Mar 15 01:30 drive02/client-aFileVol7651

# ls -l VirtualFull/vf_drive02/wiki*
-rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 5368447097 Mar 6 09:07 VirtualFull/vf_drive02/client-aVFVol5720
-rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 5368447166 Mar 6 09:08 VirtualFull/vf_drive02/client-aVFVol5722
-rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 5368447187 Mar 6 09:10 VirtualFull/vf_drive02/client-aVFVol5725
-rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula   286220965 Mar 6 09:10 VirtualFull/vf_drive02/client-aVFVol5728

So, is there a way for a virtual full to read from itself to generate a new virtual full, without having to move or clone volumes around?

Or, is there any advice in general where I can achieve a similar goal? Where I can avoid doing a monthly full, but rely on incrementals and virtual fulls to create new virtual fulls?

Thanks!

Mike C

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