On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 04:21:24PM +0100, stefano scotti wrote: > There are 4 different rotation rules and schedules... not three. > How am i supposed to solve this? > With my own scripts, i would define 4 pools, and a job type for each pool: > Level 0 Pool Type:Full > Level 1 Pool Type:Differential > Level 2 Pool Type:Incremental > Level 3 Pool Type:Incremental
Be careful here what is based on what. Differential has all changes since last Full Incremental has all changes since the last run of any of Full/Differential/Incremental. If you run 1234567123456712345671234567 FIIIIIIDIIIIIIDIIIIIIDIIIIII and delete the first 2 differential, your 1st 6 Is and last 6 Is would be usable, the 2nd and 3rd 6 Is are useless as they have no base to work on. Now if you enhance this for your 3-hourly Incrementals (i) a week looks like this DiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiIiiiiiii you imagine, but it won't work like this, if you delete any of the i, you won't be able to completly rstore to any following I or i point in time. It in fact actually DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII I think there is no easy way out if this is about used backup space. One way is to replace the I with D and then actually have the i as I. Depending on the changed amount of data, you might convert the weeks D into F. You can try 2 different jobs instead, but you still will have more Full backups than you like, you just need to keep the latest F, D and all I since the last D for the second set. Set1: FIIIIIIDIIIIIIDIIII_______I_______ Set2: FxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxDIIIIIIIDIIIIIII Set1 '_' is just spaced out as here we need more fields for the time where the 3-hourly are run. The 'x' are positions that are already deleted in the second set. You can alter the Pool of a job with the run directive. Check http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION001450000000000000000 > In my opinion it is wrong to bind the concept of job type and the concept > of pool, they are 2 different things. > I use a pool to define a group of volumes and their rotation rules, i > specify a job type to define if those volumes will contain an > incremental,differential or full backup. I think it can be used like that. Regards, Adrian -- LiHAS - Adrian Reyer - Hessenwiesenstraße 10 - D-70565 Stuttgart Fon: +49 (7 11) 78 28 50 90 - Fax: +49 (7 11) 78 28 50 91 Mail: li...@lihas.de - Web: http://lihas.de Linux, Netzwerke, Consulting & Support - USt-ID: DE 227 816 626 Stuttgart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
