Hello, 18.11.2009 07:32, Jim Barber wrote: > Hi. > > When defining backup strategies, I've wanted to be able to define > the 'Next Pool' in the Schedule to override the value defined > against a pool.
An interesting and valuable feature request. Can you reformat it to the shape found at http://www.bacula.org/en/?page=feature-request and re-submit it then? Kern will probably not even read through it in this form, and definitely not reformat it himself for inclusion into the feature request list. Cheers, Arno > An example of one usage of such a feature follows: > > I have an incremental pool that each week gets consolidated into a > full pool via a VirtualFull job. The 'Next Pool' directive of the > incremental pool defines the location of the full pool. > > The following week, the next VirtualFull backup will run. It will > read the previous full backups and incremental backups since then, > to create new full backups. It is important that the VirtualFull > backup does not try to write to the same tape that the previous > weeks full backup wrote to and left in Append status. Otherwise you > could end up with the one tape trying to be read and written and > dead-lock. > > At the moment I have a hack to get around this. An admin job calls > an external command that runs a SQL update to find any tapes in the > full pool with an APPEND status and change it to USED. This runs > after the full backups have been done. > > Instead I'd like to create two full pools. One for even weeks and > one for odd weeks of the year. That way, even week virtual full > backups could consolidate odd week virtual full backups with the > latest incremental backups. And the odd week virtual full backups > could consolidate the even week full backups with the latest > incremental backups. > > The trouble is that the Incremental pool can only define one Next > Pool. I can't have it toggle the Next Pool directive from odd to > even, week to week. Unless I could override it from the schedule. > > Doing that would mean I could ditch my SQL hack to manipulate the > tape status. It will also be less wasteful of tapes, since I won't > have partially filled USED tapes throughout my library. > > Regards, > -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
