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Used Bacula
restore today for first time in anger - brilliant!!!
Couple of
queries though - perhaps we will just focus on one here ....
File naming. We take securities to mirrored SATA disks, monthly FULL, weekly DIFFERENTIAL and daily INCREMENTAL. We use different pools for each and have attempted to name them respectively 'full - year - month - day", "diff - year - month - day" and "incr - year - month - day". We keep Full backups for 6 months, Differential backups for 2 months and incremental for 2 weeks. What we anticipated occurring was that we would be able to look at a directory listing and view a chronologically sorted series of full, differential and incremental backup files with those older than our retention settings having been deleted. The syntax we use is fine and until the files get recycled, the naming works perfectly - then BACULA starts to reuse existing volume names rather than continuing to create new ones. I guess we have missed something ridiculously easy. As an example of one of our pool resources we have:- Pool { Name= alphadaily Pool type= Backup Accept Any Volume= yes Volume Retention= 15 days Recycle= yes Autoprune= yes Use Volume yes Maximum Volumes= 20 Label Format= "alpha - incr - ${Year} - ${Month:p/2/0/r} - ${Day:p/2/0/r}" } > If someone could please give us a clue we would be grateful > > Thanks > > David |
