Hi
Thanks for the reply, appreciate the points u made
On 2024-08-29 09:09, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote:
As the subject says, I was wondering if it is possible to make the
creation of a new volume conditional on a bckup job running on a
particular weekday, or the job being a particular category i.e Full
backup.
Sure, no problem. Create a dedicated pool and setup a volume to
"close"after a first job (status Used, Use Volume Once = yes) which
ensures the next full backup will get a new, fresh volume.
I will try it, thanks for the suggestion
meaning if job is a full backup or running on sunday, make a new
vol and label it and have the jobs running on weekdays write to
same vol
Background is that i would like to have the the full backup(usualy
running on a sunday), and the following diff. backup on weekdays
in one
and same volume(just trying to have it neat for archiving)
Let the Bacula manage your volumes. Do not try to manage it yourself.
Bacula is the advanced backup application.
Bacula has a perfect feature for your archiving - Copy Jobs. Please
use it instead of manual volume management.
and ofcourse
preferably have a time stamp in the Vol- name.
Why? Bacula already writes a volume timestamp and job timestamps
inside a volume itself. It is already there, no need to write it
manually again.
The reason i want to do it is to be able the tell the time span of a
backup file(when looking on the physical file on the disk) just by
looking at the name. i.e one file with a particular time stamp spans the
whole coming week. I think it will provide the other guys in the IT a
better grip on the backup files
But i think i read it
some where that vol name expansion is possible, just have to find the
particular section in manual
What do you mean? You can name your volume with any prefix you like:
Label Format = <format>
https://www.bacula.org/15.0.x-manuals/en/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION00231600000000000000000
<https://www.bacula.org/15.0.x-manuals/en/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION00231600000000000000000>
Then Bacula append a counter for volume name uniquness, which is
required. -> "media_volumename_id" UNIQUE, btree (volumename)
yes, but instead of naming the backup files with names like Volume-001,
volume-002 ... etc etc, I would like to have names like
SrvName-2004-08-27, i got the date stamping to work and am still working
on it to find a good naming convention, i do realize that this is a
matter of personal taste though, Bacula does not care :)
Thanks for the link btw, the documentation is realy quite large, i had
not come to this section yet, cool stuff
best regards
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Radosław Korzeniewski
rados...@korzeniewski.net <mailto:rados...@korzeniewski.net>
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Sincerely /Mehrdad
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