On 01/13/2010 02:09 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: >>>>>> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:38:08 -0600, Jon Schewe said: >>>>>> >> I have standard backups (incremental, differential, full) going to tape >> using a pool named Default. I have weekly full backups going to an >> external drive using a pool named Offsite. Now when I do a restore I >> would like bacula to only consider the backups in the Default pool and >> to ignore those in the Offsite pool. Is this possible? >> > No. > > That's too bad. Can it be specified by job? Since I have different jobs for offsite and standard, one could possibly differentiate based upon that.
> >> Related question: When bacula is considering which is the most recent >> full backup to compute differences for a differential backup will it >> consider all job definitions and thus consider my Offsite pool? Or will >> it just consider just the currently running Job definition and thus use >> only the Default pool (tapes)? >> > It will consider the most recent occurrence of the named job with level Full. > > If you have a single job definition doing both standard and offsite backups, > then there is a danger that the differential will be based relative to the > offsite backup. It might be better to define a separate job for the offsite > backup, using the same client and fileset as the regular job. > I have separate job definitions, so I should OK here. -- Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe If you see an attachment named signature.asc, this is my digital signature. See http://www.gnupg.org for more information. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
