Hi list, I'm using bacula-5.0.2 with a disk storage and a Tandberg 24-tape changer system to backup about 130 server systems. The intention was to do a disk based full backup once a week and afterwards copy these full backups on tape. Currently, I'm using three storage devices (FileStorage, FileStorageFull and LTO-4-1) and one autochanger T24-Changer. Each client has its Client and Job definition, with a Pool and a FullBackupPool defined. Additionally, there is one more Job definition for the copy procedure, with SelectionType PoolUncopiedJobs and the FileStorage-Full pool defined.
Well, my problem with this setting is (hopefully) mainly a configuration issue. On sunday morning, all 130 clients are doing their full backup. On monday morning, I'm starting the DiskToTape job, which then selects all the full backups to be copied to tape. For some reason, there is one full job with name "DiskToTape.TIMESTAMP" for each client running, and additionally one incremental job with name "clientname.TIMESTAMP" for each client running. This doubles of course the overall amount of running jobs from 130 to 260, which then of course leads to problems if there are some incremental jobs (from the usual daily run) still running, which then blocks the tape copy procedure. Additionally, after starting the "DiskToTape" job, I thought I would get an email with the output of this job, but no, I'm getting one email for every "forked" job, and every job output email has the same subject because they all carry the variable expansion of the DiskToTape job itself, but not of the forked job, which makes it nearly impossible to keep track about which backups have been written to tape. Above double job behaviour also reflects in bacula database where every copied job is entered as an additional incremental job and not distinguishable from the other jobs. So, did I miss something important in my configuration or is this intented to be that way? Are there any hints how I could make this setting a ltitle bit better? It's quite hard this way, because since I've enabled the Copy feature my backup system is not running reliable anymore (since sometimes the copy jobs are blocking the normal incremental jobs which is bad bad). Open for any hints. Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
