Hello Larryboy
2016-05-27 6:40 GMT-03:00 Larrybwoy <bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com>:
> Hello again,
>
> A new question : Is there a way I can set up Bacula so that it recycles
> only the differential jobs from a volume? For example, I have one volume
> that has the initial full backup in it and 1 other differential job. Can I
> set it up so that only the differential job in there gets recycled every
> hour?
>
This case is not possible, because all backup (Full and Differential) are
in the same volume, if you recycle volume, bacula will recycle entire
volume.
>
> OR, say i have the flag "User Volume Once = yes", and I have 1 volume
> which is the first full backup, then 1 other volume which represents the
> differential backup, can I set up recycling only on the 2nd volume? I don't
> want to be doing a full backup every hour because of retention times, and I
> only want to do a full backup ONCE, then only differential.
>
Yes. You need to create a Pool for the Full backups with a long retention
and another Pool for the Differential backups with a shorter retention.
> I have tried this (without the Use Volume Once flag) with a 3 hour
> retention period (since it takes about 2 and a half hours to do a full
> backup for my filesystem, and if I set the retention period lower than that
> then bacula runs the next differential job(which is hourly) as a full
> job...) and the problem is that after those 3 hours are up bacula creates
> a new full job in the first volume, since it sees it as being expired.
>
> I can't seem to figure out a decent plan using Bacula for my specific
> needs, it's driving me crazy.
>
>
Best Regards
*Wanderlei Hüttel*
http://www.huttel.com.br
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