On 05/18/10 13:45, Joseph Spenner wrote: > --- On Tue, 5/18/10, Joseph Spenner <joseph85...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > >> Ok, I do have a spare disk in my system I can use for the >> 7th day. So, let's change the schedule such that I >> have 3 sets of "7 disks", for a total of 21 disks. >> Perhaps this will simplify the scheduling. I still >> wish to have a full backup for every client at least once >> per week (7 days). >> > > I've come up with a solution: > > Schedule { > Name = "WeeklyCycleSunday" > Run = Level=Full sun at 1:05 > Run = Incremental mon-sat at 1:05 > } > > Schedule { > Name = "WeeklyCycleMonday" > Run = Level=Full mon at 1:05 > Run = Incremental tue-sun at 1:05 > } > > Schedule { > Name = "WeeklyCycleTuesday" > Run = Level=Full tue at 1:05 > Run = Incremental wed-mon at 1:05 > } > > Schedule { > Name = "WeeklyCycleWednesday" > Run = Level=Full wed at 1:05 > Run = Incremental thu-tue at 1:05 > } > > Schedule { > Name = "WeeklyCycleThursday" > Run = Level=Full thu at 1:05 > Run = Incremental fri-wed at 1:05 > } > > Schedule { > Name = "WeeklyCycleFriday" > Run = Level=Full fri at 1:05 > Run = Incremental sat-thu at 1:05 > } > > Schedule { > Name = "WeeklyCycleSaturday" > Run = Level=Full sat at 1:05 > Run = Incremental sun-fri at 1:05 > } > > Schedule { > Name = "WeeklyCycleAfterBackup" > Run = Full sun-sat at 1:10 > } > > ... > > Then, as I add clients, I decide which Schedule to use such that the Full > backups are spread out somewhat evenly.
Yup, that's exactly how to do it. Make sure to set your Catalog backup at a lower priority (where 1 is highest priority) than your client backups, so that the Director will wait until the last client has finished before kicking off the night's Catalog backup. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users