Hello all,

 

I have been using Bacula to back up several servers for about 2 months now.  I now would like to take the next step to FTP my backups off-site.  However, I back up about 10GB each night and that is a bit too much data to move every night.  My backups are to the file system.

 

To get around this, I have created a second storage device that puts a backup in a subfolder that I will not FTP.  The remaining backups are left to the original storage device.  By the way, I have pools Sun to Sat set up, plus a Perm pool.  These all work fine.  

 

So far, everything is working as I would expect…  except, the catalog backup is not going to the device (and therefore the volume mounted on that device) that I specify.  Let me try to elaborate:

 

Server A backup kicks off at 22:00 and writes to storage Z

Server B backup kicks off at 22:00 and writes to storage Z

Server C backup kicks off at 22:00 and writes to storage Z

Server D backup kicks off at 22:00 and writes to storage Y

Catalog backup kicks off at 23:55 and is supposed to write to storage Z, but attempts to write to storage Y.

 

Now, since the volume it is expecting does not reside in storage Z, it invalidates the volume to which it wanted to write (sets it to Error), and ultimately finds the correct volume on the correct storage.  However, it leaves me with a volume in error each night.

 

I’m afraid that my only solution is to create a second pool set (Sun-Sat + Perm for this 1 server) in order to get the catalog to write to the correct storage device.  That is bit of complexity I did not want to take on if I could help it.

 

Here is the catalog backup job in my bacula-dir.conf:

 

Job {

Name = "BackupCatalog"

JobDefs = "DefaultJob"

Level = Full

Client = Bacula-Server

FileSet="Catalog"

Schedule = "FullCatalog"

Storage = Backup-File

RunBeforeJob = "/usr/libexec/bacula/make_catalog_backup.pl MyCatalog"

RunAfterJob  = "/usr/libexec/bacula/delete_catalog_backup"

Write Bootstrap = "/var/spool/bacula/%n.bsr"

Priority = 11                                 # run after main backup

}

 

Notice I am explicit about the storage to which to write the catalog.

 

Is there anything I might be missing before I set up another set of pools? 

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

 

 

Thank you!

 

Adam Clark