Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] full and incremental backups

2013-02-02 07:06:55
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] full and incremental backups
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: Süleyman Kuran <skuran AT ayk.gov DOT tr>, bacula-users <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 07:04:37 -0500
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 7:03 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:56 AM, Süleyman Kuran <skuran AT ayk.gov DOT tr> 
> wrote:
>> Hi List,
>>
>> I am scheduling montly backups to move to an off-site location in case of a
>> disaster. Monthly backup job copies a full backup 1st friday night of every
>> month then backups up incremental on the remaining days of month. What I am
>> trying to achive is to export a tape cartridge 1 st friday of every month
>> before leaving the office containing the full and incrementals backup ups of
>> the previous month.  The schedule config is as follows :
>>
>>
>> Schedule {
>>   Name = "MultipleRUN"
>>   Run = Level=Full Pool=Daily mon-sun at 3:17
>>   Run = Level=Full Pool=Weekly sun at 9:05
>>   Run = Level=Incremental Pool=Weekly mon-sat at 5:05
>>   Run = Level=Full Pool=Monthly 1st fri at 22:05
>>   Run = Level=Incremental Pool=Monthly sun-fri at 2:05
>> }
>>
>>
>> Now the problem; full and incremental backups are not bound to pools, bacula
>> just picks up the last full backup to compare, regardless of the pool when
>> preparing for the incremental. When I remove the cartridge out of the
>> office, there is a chance that the corresponding full backups are still
>> located in the library, and my montly backup is useless without a recent
>> full backup.
>>
>> How can i make sure my monthly backup consists of a full backup and
>> incrementals derived from the full on the same media
>>
>
> I would do a separate job and schedule for the offline set. This way
> the incrementals will work correctly instead of being based on the
> daily full backups.

In this case you keep the exact same fileset but have a different job
and a different schedule resource.

John

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