On 03/15/2011 10:05 PM, Silver Salonen wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 March 2011 01:32:29 Mike Carlson wrote:
>> I've been semi-successful with doing daily incrementals, and then a
>> VirtualFull at the end of the month. However, after two months of doing
>> this, the virtual full wants lasts months virtual full. This isn't
>> working because the File device cannot read and write simultaneously to
>> itself... It appears to be a chicken and the egg problem that I don't
>> know how to work around.
>>
>> Here is my schedule:
>>
>> Schedule {
>> Name = "1am"
>> Run = Incremental mon-sun at 01:30
>> }
>>
>> Schedule {
>> Name = "1am-vf"
>> Run = VirtualFull 3rd sun at 01:30
>> }
>>
>> A client has two jobs, one for the first Full and incrementals, and
>> another job for the virtual full.
>>
>> Job {
>> Name = "client-a"
>> Type = Backup
>> Level = Incremental
>> FileSet = "client-a FileSet"
>> Client = "client-a"
>> Storage = FileStorageD2
>> Pool = client-a-File
>> Schedule = "1am"
>> Messages = Standard
>> Priority = 10
>> Write Bootstrap = "/var/db/bacula/%c.bsr"
>> Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10
>> Reschedule On Error = yes
>> Reschedule Interval = 1 hour
>> Reschedule Times = 8
>> Allow Duplicate Jobs = no
>> }
>>
>> Job {
>> Name = "client-a-vf"
>> Type = Backup
>> Level = VirtualFull
>> FileSet = "client-a FileSet"
>> Client = "client-a"
>> Storage = VF_FileStorageD2
>> Pool = client-a-File
>> Schedule = "1am-vf"
>> Messages = Standard
>> Priority = 10
>> Write Bootstrap = "/var/db/bacula/%c.bsr"
>> Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10
>> Reschedule On Error = yes
>> Reschedule Interval = 1 hour
>> Reschedule Times = 8
>> Allow Duplicate Jobs = no
>> }
>>
>>
>> Each client has two pools and two devices it can write to:
>>
>> Pool {
>> Name = client-a-File
>> Pool Type = Backup
>> Recycle = yes
>> AutoPrune = yes
>> Volume Retention = 1 months
>> Maximum Volume Bytes = 5G
>> Maximum Volumes = 100
>> LabelFormat = "client-aFileVol"
>> Maximum Volume Jobs = 5
>> Next Pool = client-a-vf
>> Storage = FileStorageD2
>> }
>>
>> Pool {
>> Name = client-a-vf
>> Pool Type = Backup
>> Recycle = yes
>> AutoPrune = yes
>> Volume Retention = 1 months
>> Maximum Volume Bytes = 5G
>> Maximum Volumes = 100
>> LabelFormat = "client-aVFVol"
>> Maximum Volume Jobs = 5
>> Storage = VF_FileStorageD2
>> }
>>
>> One the filesystem, it ends up looking like this (I have a drive##, and
>> a separate volume for virtual fulls called vf_drive##):
>>
>> # ls -l drive02/wiki*
>> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 5368447065 Feb 17 01:11
>> drive02/client-aFileVol3000
>> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 5368447173 Feb 17 01:19
>> drive02/client-aFileVol3004
>> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 4866003704 Feb 21 01:00
>> drive02/client-aFileVol3006
>> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 2008089223 Feb 26 01:00
>> drive02/client-aFileVol3134
>> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 136824584 Mar 3 01:00
>> drive02/client-aFileVol3295
>> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 236109713 Mar 10 01:00
>> drive02/client-aFileVol4272
>> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 119846566 Mar 15 01:30
>> drive02/client-aFileVol7651
>>
>> # ls -l VirtualFull/vf_drive02/wiki*
>> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 5368447097 Mar 6 09:07
>> VirtualFull/vf_drive02/client-aVFVol5720
>> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 5368447166 Mar 6 09:08
>> VirtualFull/vf_drive02/client-aVFVol5722
>> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 5368447187 Mar 6 09:10
>> VirtualFull/vf_drive02/client-aVFVol5725
>> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 286220965 Mar 6 09:10
>> VirtualFull/vf_drive02/client-aVFVol5728
>>
>> So, is there a way for a virtual full to read from itself to generate a
>> new virtual full, without having to move or clone volumes around?
>>
>> Or, is there any advice in general where I can achieve a similar goal?
>> Where I can avoid doing a monthly full, but rely on incrementals and
>> virtual fulls to create new virtual fulls?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mike C
> Hi Mike.
>
> You seem to have the same file-pool defined for both jobs. No?
>
> --
> Silver
>
I'll re-verify this, but the VF would never initially run if I specified
the -vf pool in the Virtual Full job, let me re-test this though and get
back to you.
Mike C
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