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Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling hourly backups with different levels and pools

2012-02-22 08:31:15
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling hourly backups with different levels and pools
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: joenyland AT me DOT com
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:29:22 -0500
2012/2/22  <joenyland AT me DOT com>:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm in the process of setting up MySQL backups in Bacula, using mysqldump
> for full backups and backing up my bin logs for incremental backups.
>
> What I would like to do is to perform a full backup to my full backup pool
> at 00:00 every night, then perform incremental backups to my incremental
> pool every hour thereafter.
>
> Just as a rough config, I have the current schedule at the moment, whilst
> testing:
>
> Schedule {
>   Name = "TestServer MySQL Database Schedule"
>   Run = Level=Full pool=TestServer_MySQL_Full Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Full
> daily at 00:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 01:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 02:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 03:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 04:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 05:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 06:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 07:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 08:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 09:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 10:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 11:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 12:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 13:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 14:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 15:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 16:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 17:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 18:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 19:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 20:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 21:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 22:00
>   Run = Level=Incremental pool=TestServer_MySQL_Inc
> Storage=TestServer_MySQL_Inc daily at 23:00
> }
>
> I feel that there must be another, cleaner, way to define this kind of
> backup schedule, but I can't seem to be able to find one from the manual.
>

You could make the default level Incremental and the default Pool
TestServer_MySQL_Inc in your Job and cut all overrides but the full
however I would leave this alone. Your schedule is fine.

John

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