Hi there,
We just started using Bacula 1.38.5 with an 11 tape LTO changer, after a
few days of playing around we finally have it working to our likes,
however there are a few things I couldn't make heads or tails of..
Pool/Media Management -
We have a barcode reader in out changer unit, when we load 11 fresh
tapes into the changer and do a label barcodes from bconsole it loads
all the cartridges and can see the labels we printed off, does this mean
in future if we decide to add new tapes to our pool that we don't have
to worry about adding tapes to the catalog? Or will bacula automatically
do that if it can see the labels?
Below we decided on 3 pools, the idea was that we would not tie any tape
to any existing pool and that if a tape was needed we would pull this
from the scratch pool.
The thing I'm not sure of is when a tape if pulled, say for an
incremental job, it is then assigned to the incremental pool, but when
the volume retention expires, does this volume get recycled back into
the scratch pool or does it stay within the incremental pool?
Pool {
Name = Incremental
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically
recycle Volumes
AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
Maximum Volume Jobs = 30 # 5 jobs/day x 6 days
Volume Retention = 75 days # 12 Days the DB will hold
Job/File Records
Accept Any Volume = yes # write on any volume in the pool
Volume Use Duration = 75 days # Allow Volume 6 days of use
}
Pool {
Name = Full
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically
recycle Volumes
AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 # 1 Full Backup/tape, per week
Volume Retention = 75 days # Hold for 30 days
Accept Any Volume = yes # write on any volume in the pool
Volume Use Duration = 75 days
}
Pool {
Name = Scratch
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically
recycle Volumes
AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
Accept Any Volume = yes # write on any volume in the pool
}
My next and last question... Is there any way customizing the output
format of the job totals, for example JobBytes shows totals in kbytes,
this would look a little more friendly if we could change this to
display in megabytes
Thanks
Wm
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