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Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull Jobs

2014-05-06 08:20:09
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull Jobs
From: Egoitz Aurrekoetxea <egoitz AT ramattack DOT net>
To: Xabier Elkano <xelkano AT hostinet DOT com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 14:14:19 +0200
So, finally this all means that you can do a virtual full job and no need to 
migrate is needed anymore ? neither
for doing a new virtual full or perform some kind of restoration?.

Best regards,


El 06/05/2014, a las 12:40, Xabier Elkano <xelkano AT hostinet DOT com> 
escribió:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> happy to read that this restriction has been removed :-)
> 
> I am running virtual fulls for almost three years and I'm very happy
> with them. I had to use them because my servers had a very high load
> when running full backups jobs. I did a little trick to manage the
> migration from virtual pool to normal pool. After each backup job
> (without distinction) I have configured a little script (RunAfterJob) to
> verify if there are volumes in the virtual pool and if it find some, it
> move them to the normal pool. The changes are made directly in the
> Bacula database, because volumes are, in both pools, in the same directory.
> 
> I simply run this for each volume found in the virtual pool:
> 
> update Media set MediaType=$mediatype,StorageId=$storageid where
> VolumeName=$vol
> 
> the following incremental and restores are run without problems.
> 
> Xabier
> 
> El 04/05/14 14:51, Kern Sibbald escribió:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I believe that I have removed the restriction on using a different Pool.
>> Perhaps it is not well documented, in which case if you make it work, as
>> I think a lot of people have done, a patch for the manual would be
>> appreciated.
>> 
>> Kern
>> 
>> On 04/30/2014 12:45 PM, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea wrote:
>>> Good morning,
>>> 
>>> I’m at this moment doing real full jobs of my servers. I have some slowness 
>>> (in backup) with some servers due to it’s activity. I have tested virtual 
>>> full jobs
>>> and work like a charm :) but I have one problem; normally I schedule a real 
>>> full job and I’m done…  as virtual full jobs have to be done in another 
>>> pool, later 
>>> migrated and later a new incremental job should be done (for replacing a 
>>> normal full)  how could I manage for automating this tasks, without 
>>> starting one
>>> before the other one and… basically for automating all this tasks involving 
>>> a virtual full job but having in mind that this automation has to be in a 
>>> proper order, if
>>> one job fails should not continue with the other “sub jobs” let’s say of 
>>> the virtual full job?… how do you manage for this tasks?
>>> 
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