Arno Lehmann schrieb:
> On 1/26/2006 2:44 PM, Ralf Gross wrote:
> >Ralf Gross schrieb:
> >
> >>at the moment I'm building the config for 2 servers. One should be
> >>backed up regularly, full on saturday, incremental mon-fri.
> >>Additionally I'd like to keep one full backup of each month for one
> >>year in a safe offside the office.
> >>[snip]
> >>Schedule {
> >> Name = "BangWeeklyCycle"
> >> Run = Full sat at 19:30
> >> Run = Incremental mon-fri at 18:45
> >>}
> >>[snip]
> >>Now, I've still some questions.
> >>
> >>* should I use two separate pools for the full/inc. backups? This
> >> would mean that I need more tapes, but this my have other
> >> advantages.
>
> Well, I would do it as the incremental backups will (typically) expire
> before the full ones, so you don't have to store tapes with "holes" on
> them. Might save some tapes in the long run.
Ok. I think that I'll turn down the incr. backups completely and
schedule only 2 full backups per week. I'm backing up the server to
disk every day, furthermore a full backup is done by our data center
every weekend. This, and the 2 bacula full backups, should be
sufficient ;)
> >Searched the list an found something similar. I thinks this would fit
> >my needs - if I create the BangArchive pool as type archive. But this
> >option is marked as not yet implemented in the manual.
>
> Never tried this. But I guess that Bacula currently simply ignores pools
> marked as archive, and then this wouldn't help you.
>
> >Run = Level=Full Pool=BangArchive 1st sat at 19:30
> >Run = Level=Full Pool=BangWeekly 2nd-5th sat at 19:30
> >Run = Level=Incremental Pool=BangWeekly mon-fri at 18:45
> >
> >I tried to change the state of a tape to archive with bconsole
> >(update), which might be an alternative instead of 2 different pools
> >for the full backups.
> >This seems to have worked. At least 'list volumes' shows the achive
> >flag. Now I'm a bit confused, because this is marked as not
> >implemented too.
>
> Well, the status can be set, but neither does Bacula that automatically
> depending on your setup, nor does Bacula do anything useful with these
> volumes - they simply exist in the catalog, and are never considered for
> writing. I don't know if they are pruned, though.
>
> Anyway, setting them to status "Archive" either manually or using a
> script should do what you need - it marks them as unavailable for
> Bacula, and you can easily track them in the catalog.
I'll do it that way, but I'm still curious, why this option is marked
as not yet implemented. It seems that you use it that way, thus I hope
bacula honors this flag and won't overwrite my tapes by accident.
Ralf
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