Basically I think I have the following options: 1. Have a admin job call a script which enables/disables volumes comparing dates with holiday dates to be run in advance of every backup session. Requires extensive scripting and does not allow for manual disablement of volumes. 2. Move a week pool definition to system where every day has it's own Pool. Not difficult. Just many extra lines in bacula-dir.conf and requires catalog maintenance. 3. add to my config: Recycle Current Volume = yes
I think that is also the sequence of options which requires most work to the least work. Option 2 sounds the safest. However on the subject of option 3: Will it honor retention times: If for instance tape "Monday" is inserted on Tuesday will Bacula error and demand the Tuesday-volume/tape to be inserted or will it overwrite the Monday tape although the Monday-volume-retentiontime is not yet reached? Regards Olaf Martin Simmons wrote: >>>>>> On Tue, 26 May 2009 15:17:50 +0200, Olaf Zevenboom said: >>>>>> >> Dear List, >> >> We have got a single-slot tapedrive and therefor do not have the luxury >> of letting Bacula decide which volume/tape to use. So our configuration >> forces Bacula to use a Monday-volume(tape), a Tuesday-volume(tape) etc. >> I have implemented a RunBeforeJob which checks if the current date is a >> holiday or not and forces the backup to be canceled if needed. >> However this leads to the need of multiple manual interventions as soon >> as the holidayperiod has ended: when a pool of volumes is pruned for >> instance the Monday volume gets pruned and on Tuesday (not being a >> holiday) Bacula want the oldest available volume being the Monday >> volume. The next day same issue. This obviously continues until the >> retention-period in that pool is reached again. >> >> How can I let Bacula skip that volume one more entire retention period >> (through a script)? >> > > Have you tried adding > > Recycle Current Volume = yes > > to the pool? > > Alternatively, you could have a pool for each day of the week. > > __Martin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT > is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet > the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & > iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian > Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
