Citando Jim Barber <jim.bar...@ddihealth.com>:
> Yes I am. > I am using a TL2000 tape library with two drives. > The technique can't work if you only have one tape drive. > I'm taking incremental backups Mon-Fri. > Then after the incremental backups are finished on Friday I > consolidate them into a VirtualFull backup. > For a VirtualFull backup to work it takes the previous full > backup and the incremental backups since, and combines them to > produce new tape(s) that will be promoted to being the latest > full backups. > The first incremental backups ever run for a host will auto > upgrade to a full backup so you're covered for that. > The process seems to work well for me, after I worked around a > minor problem. > After the incremental backup is complete, tapes are left in the > drives. > If tape X is in drive 1 after the incremental backups are > complete and the VirtualFull wishes to load it it into drive 0 > to read from; then Bacula can't eject the tape from drive 1 and > then load it into drive 0 and deadlocks for user intervention. > User intervention doesn't help either as the tape you want to > eject is locked by Bacula, so you end up stopping daemons and > interrupting the backup. > The solution is to use an administrative job that is scheduled > to eject all tapes from the drives after the incremental backups > are done, and before the VirtualFull backup starts. > Perhaps I should have just raised a bug on that... > . > . > . > . > > ----------Jim Barbe i raised this issue in the devel list a few month ago but nobody seemed interested in solving this problem. the subject of my message was: bug ? bacula asks for a volume that is already mounterd maybe you will be more lucky? the idea of scheduling a low priority job to release the tapes is bright but solving this bug would be preferable !!! PS : Do you know if replacing full with virtualfull is possible for standard disk based storage deamons ? i taught that one can not read and write simultaneously from the same SD. so you cannot create a virtuallfull from the previous virtualfull + incremental as the two virtualfulls are stored in the same pool of the same sd Penne ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
