On 16.04.2012 12:09, Hugo Letemplier wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I use Bacula 5.0.3
> 
> On few linux servers I have got BDD dumps that run every nights at a
> specified time.
> For synchronism reasons between databases theses backups are run via
> crontab and not directly from bacula.
> 
> I need that bacula save theses databases dumps every morning
> - The filesystem is a read only LVM snapshot of a Virtual Machine (
> the backup is ran on the physical host and not on the virtual machine
> )
> - The snapshot is generated and mounted in a Run Before Job script
> 
> Rotation schemas that deletes old dumps on the backed up server is not
> the same than on the configuration of bacula servers
> 
> I need bacula to :
> - Run a full
> - Save only the dumps that haven't been already backed up .
> 
> I must have a full:
> - If I do increments, I will need to keep the full and this is not
> what I want, if the full is deleted it will create a new one
> - Moreover a DB dump as no dependency in previous dumps
> 
> I can't select only the dump of the day :
> - If bacula job is not working one day, the next one must backup the
> "missed db dump" that where not backed up during the failed job
> 
> I can't use a predefined list of files in fileset because the estimate
> seems to be done before "Run Before Job" script that generates the
> snapshot so it doesn't validate the include path.
> File = "\\|bash -c \"find …… wont work because it's ran before my
> snapshot creation
> 
> I think that it rests "options sections" from fileset but I didn't
> found anything that's fine
> 
> In fact I want to run a full that saves only files since the last
> successful backup without using the incremental method because it will
> generate a full that will be deleted so I will have a useless FULL -
> INC dependence
> 
> Have you got an idea ?
> 
> Thanks

Hi,

if I understand you right, you want Bacula's virtual backup. You can run
your usual Full and Incremental jobs and then consolidate them into a
new Full backup. See

http://bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_3_0_0.html#SECTION001370000000000000000


Regards,
Christian Manal


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