Hello,

On 05.10.2005 15:10, Michael Koppelman wrote:

OK, thanks anyway...

?

Michael

On Oct 3, 2005, at 8:49 PM, Michael Koppelman wrote:

I've been searching the archive and it looks like I'm not the only one confused by pool behavior. I apologize if this is redundant but I can't seem to find an authoritative answer.

My goal is simple: put all Full backups in the Full pool, put all Differentials in the Differential pool and put all Incrementals in the Incremental pool. If a backup gets upgrade to Full, it should go in the Full pool.

I'm sure this works, because I've got it set up like this. Although automatically upgraded jobs need manual intervention, because I want them to go to different storage as well...

Part of my confusion is that I'm expecting `status dir` to list the pool the backup will go in. So far, I've never successfully gotten the scheduled jobs to appear as if they are going to go to the pool I've requested.

Hmm. The volume "status dir" reports is usually not correct when you work with "Incremental Pool", "Full Pool", etc. directives. That's a known issue, but as the guessed volume is almost never the one a job goes to (because of pruning, tape changing, tape filling etc.) taht's not much of a problem for me (and others).

First I tried this:

Schedule {
  Name = "CWAnnualCycle1"
  Run = Level=Full Pool=Full on jan 1 at 1:05
  Run = Level=Full Pool=Full on jul 1 at 1:05a
  Run = Level=Differential Pool=Diff monthly on 1 at 1:05
  Run = Level=Incremental Pool=Inc daily at 1:05
}

But when the job ran it went to Pool=Default, the last thing I would have expected.

That job was probably automatically upgraded, and the setting in the job resource was "Pool=Default"?

Then I tried this:

JobDefs {
  Name = "CWJob"
  Type = Backup
  Level = Incremental
  Client = neutron-fd
  FileSet = "www"
  Storage = File
  Messages = Standard
  Pool = Full
  Full Backup Pool = Full
  Incremental Backup Pool = Inc
  Differential Backup Pool = Diff
  Priority = 10
}


...but all my scheduled jobs list volumes from Pool=Default again!

That's interesting. Did you do a reload or a restart of the DIR after changing the configuration?


I'm sure I'm just being stupid and I apologize for what is probably a recurring question.

No need to apologize, only I just don't see the reason for this behaviour yet.

I'd suggest you stop the DIR, pick one job setup where you verify the settings in the job resource as well as the overrides in the schedule, start the DIR again, see what the status report says, and watch what actually happens when the job runs. The last two items might indeed show a difference, but usually things are running correctly...


Arno

Thanks,
Michael

PS - I think bacula has tremendous potential. We are looking forward to deploying it in production if we can get it doing what we think we are telling it to do.



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