I see a need for it. My full backups are never on the same drive as the incrementals. This allows for me to roll the full backups while using the same tapes for incrementals (as most servers require a full DDS for full backup). Unfortunately, this means doing a lot of things manually if the backup needs to be rerun for whatever reason.
The other thing I'd love to see fixed is the "status dir" fields that list upcoming jobs. Since they do not respect the pool in the config files, the tapes shown here are often incorrect (or *unknown*). Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > On 4/26/2006 6:35 AM, Scott Ruckh wrote: > >> This is what you said Wolfgang Denk >> >>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I was already using those options in my schedule. It looks like >>>> you are >>>> saying to add the other pool options for each RUN statement. I had >>>> not >>>> tried this. Are you already using this, and is it working? >>> >>> >>> Yes, I'm using this. It's working fine for automatically scheduled >>> jobs. >>> >>> You still have to be careful if you - for example - manually start an >>> incremental backup which gets propagated into a full one - then none >>> of these configuration settings will be consulted, and you must take >>> care to manually adjust pool, storage etc. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Wolfgang Denk >>> >> >> >> Now that I think about it, the Pool is not my problem, but rather the >> storage. The FULL-Pool was chosen, but it wrote it to the INCREMENTAL >> Storage Device rather then then the FULL storage device. >> >> Am I getting confused? I do not believe your suggestions will >> resolve my >> issue. > > > I think Wolfgang got confused :-) > >> I am running a manual FULL right now to get a FULL backup before the >> Incremental schedule kicks off which I think will fix everything. It >> would be nice that this would work automatically when a new client is >> added and the first backup is run. >> >> If I am not correct in my thinking, let me know. > > > I think you're right... a setting like FullStorage, > DifferentialStorage and IncrementalStorage would be one good solution, > but some time ago this was discussed and Kern said he didn't see the > need for it. As nobody else implemented it, it's a feature still missing. > > I hope that in the future the python interfce grows to allow all these > settings. > > By the way: I even think that, once you can set all these things via > python events, the configuration of Bacula can be much simplified > because you're not foreced to use the flat text configuration files. > Instead it could be possible to to store almost all configuration > (except for some job stubs) in a way accessible by python and set the > jobs up from there. Having all the important settings in a database, > for example, would allow things like dynamically determining backup > levels, storage devices to use, file sets and so on. Very interesting > IMO. Might be a project for someone :-) > > Arno > >> Thanks. >> Scott >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, >> security? >> Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your >> job easier >> Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache >> Geronimo >> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 >> _______________________________________________ >> Bacula-users mailing list >> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >> > ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
