I am struggling to find a method of keeping consistent off-site without breaking easy restores.
My planned schedule was as follows: First Sunday of Month: Full Backup to Disk Monday-Saturday: Incremental Backup to Disk Friday (after the incremental): Virtual Full Backup to Tape Subsequent Sundays in Month: Differential Backup to Disk Keeping 3 months (or more depending on rate of change and how well compression works, which are currently unknowns) on disk for restores, and the Friday virtual full going off-Site in case of disaster. The problem I ran into (well not actually still in testing, and not production), is on the Second Friday of the month, the virtual full fails, because it can't find the previous virtual full to build the new one from. How do I make it go back to the actual full instead of the previous Virtual Full? Will I be stuck creating a virtual full to another disk pool, then running a copy job for off-site backups, which unfortunately greatly reduces the history of on disk data I can keep for restores. Or is there some method I have yet to discover that will allow me to mark the tape volume unavailable so that it ignores that job on the subsequent virtual fulls. I have tried playing with setting the enabled status to disabled, and updating the volstatus parameter, without getting anywhere. -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60133471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users