Hello.
Brennon Church wrote:
It sounds like the clone functionality would be perfect for what I'm looking for. Any estimate on when 1.37 is expected to release?
1.37 is the developing version - it's available via cvs, but unless you're ready to spend some time on bug-hunting and getting it working you should seriously think about using this as a production backup program. Basically, you never can be sure that it does what you want.
Although, reading the devel-list, it seems to work ok, but not all features are implemented or documented.
You probably best subscribe the developers list to follow its progress - I'm not sure job cloning is already implemented. When it is, testers will be very welcome :-)
The problem here is that with the currently released version 1.36.2, you can backup to two different media types as Arno indicates below, but you cannot do restores from two different media types without manually editing the bsr file. At one time I posted a document on how to do so, but it is not a recommended configuration. If all goes well version 1.37 will resolve this problem, but it is not yet a reality.
Do you still have that document anywhere? If it hasn't changed much, perhaps I could still use it for my situation?
It's rather simple when you think about it...
You start your restore job from the console, set everything up, and when all is ok, before saying "yes" to start the job, you edit the bootstrap file: (The following assumes that full backups go to media A and differential and incremental ones to B - I've got it like this, and you think about that, too...)
Save the bootstrap file,
Copy it to a second one,
In the first one, remove all references to media type B, so this only restores the full backup.
Replace the bootstrap file the director created with this edited version.
Let the job start.
(Hope everything goes well)
In the second copy, you remove all references to modia type B, this restores the diff and incr backups.
After the full backup is restored, start another restore job.
This time, you set up client, where etc. as before, but slip the second edited bootstrap file in the place of the one the director created.
I guess you understand what to do for more than two media types.
Things might get interesting if you mix different incremental backups onto different media types... I wouldn't try that :-)
Well, I did this procedure once (to test my setup) and it worked. It's more work than only clicking the mouse on Ok, but much less work than using tar or dd... and it uses my media and devices quite reasonable.
Arno
Thanks.
--Brennon
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