Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-10-09 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> Finally seems i'm a working 'VirtualFull' configuration! I can confirm, this weekend virtual full do their job automatically, so effectively seems works. Still i ask: > So consolidation works, jobs get deleted, but clearly media get not purged > nor truncated. > There's a command i can laun

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-10-02 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> Next week i'll give it a try. Thanks. Finally seems i'm a working 'VirtualFull' configuration! *run job=FVG-SV-Obito level=VirtualFull Run Backup job JobName: FVG-SV-Obito Level:VirtualFull Client: fvg-sv-obito-fd FileSet: ObitoTestStd Pool: FVG-SV-ObitoFilePoolIncremental (From

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-30 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Josh Fisher via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > The NextPool needs to be specified in the > FVG-SV-ObitoFilePoolIncremental pool resource, not in the job resource. OK, moved 'Next Job' in pool. > Other than that, you are specifically telling the job to run on a single > St

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-29 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 9/29/23 06:07, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Mandi! Josh Fisher via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... I'm really getting mad. This make sense for the behaviour (the first VirtualFull worked because read full and incremental for the same pool) but still the docs confuse me. https:/

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-29 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Josh Fisher via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... >> I'm really getting mad. This make sense for the behaviour (the first >> VirtualFull worked because read full and incremental for the same pool) but >> still the docs confuse me. >> https://www.bacula.org/9.4.x-manuals/en/

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-29 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Rados??aw Korzeniewski In chel di` si favelave... > There is always a cost, from one area to another. You can mitigate storage > cost in this case with deduplication. So, the cost shifts from storage and > time to cpu, memory and license price. :) > And everybody can choose what is the be

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-28 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, śr., 27 wrz 2023 o 18:11 Marco Gaiarin napisał(a): > The only route seems Progessive Virtual Full, indeed: > > https://www.bacula.org/whitepapers/PVF.pdf > > because old job get deleted automaticaly after consolidation, probably get > deleted also the full one, right? > > So, usin

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-27 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> full pool). But still i think that there's no way to have ONE full copy... > clearly without 'scripting' something around (create a scratch pool/volume, > consolidate, migrate back to original pool/volume, delete scratch). Exactly. 27-Sep 17:29 lnfbacula-dir JobId 11634: Start Virtual Backup

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-27 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 9/26/23 12:48, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Mandi! Rados??aw Korzeniewski In chel di` si favelave... Because of this. To make Virtual Full Bacula needs to read all backup jobs starting from Full, Diff and all Incrementals. Your Full (as volume suggests) is stored on Obito_Full_0001 which has an

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-26 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Rados??aw Korzeniewski In chel di` si favelave... > Because of this. To make Virtual Full Bacula needs to read all backup jobs > starting from Full, Diff and all Incrementals. Your Full (as volume > suggests) is stored on Obito_Full_0001 which has an improper media type. > Correct your co

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-25 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, pon., 25 wrz 2023 o 16:11 Marco Gaiarin napisał(a): > > > Now work. Still many things are confusing to me, but i'll do more test > and provide > > feedback back. > > No, still very confused. If i try to run a VirtualFull, now i catch: > > 25-Sep 15:45 lnfbacula-dir JobId 11551: Start Virt

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-25 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Rados??aw Korzeniewski In chel di` si favelave... > You always need two devices for this, it is described in the docs. You do > not need different media types if you carefully manage pool configuration. Docs say that i need two media type, but somewhere say that i can use the same pool..

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-25 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> Now work. Still many things are confusing to me, but i'll do more test and > provide > feedback back. No, still very confused. If i try to run a VirtualFull, now i catch: 25-Sep 15:45 lnfbacula-dir JobId 11551: Start Virtual Backup JobId 11551, Job=FVG-SV-Obito.2023-09-25_15.45.46_16 25-Sep

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-22 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, pt., 22 wrz 2023 o 12:41 Marco Gaiarin napisał(a): > > Device { > > Name = tethysFileStorage > > Media Type = tethysFile > [...] > > Device { > > Name = tethysVirtualFileStorage > > Media Type = tethysVirtualFile > > Ah. You defined TWO device, with diffe

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-22 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Martin Simmons In chel di` si favelave... > It is mentioned in the bullet point "Bacula currently does only minimal > Storage conflict resolution" of the 9.4 manual page you listed above. Bingo. The exact culprit came from the end of this bullet: you always migrate to pools with

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-22 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2023 12:23:29 +0200, Marco Gaiarin said: > > I've not found info on these section on (current) 9.4 docs; i've followed: > > https://www.bacula.org/9.4.x-manuals/en/main/Migration_Copy.html > > > ... > > Ah. You defined TWO device, with different media type; i've not

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-22 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Adolf Belka (gmail) In chel di` si favelave... > I can't comment on Progressive Virtual Full backups as I don't do those > but I have had a Virtual Full Backup running for several years now, > which I use for my laptop. AFAI've understood, 'progressive' is only a different specific cas

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-21 Thread Adolf Belka (gmail)
Hi Marco, I can't comment on Progressive Virtual Full backups as I don't do those but I have had a Virtual Full Backup running for several years now, which I use for my laptop. I believe I used the manual as my guide - section 12.2.7 and 33.5 but it is a long time ago now since I set it up.

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-21 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, śr., 20 wrz 2023 o 15:41 Marco Gaiarin napisał(a): > > > I've understood well? There's some way to have only ONE full at a time? > > Really no one here use 'virtual full' or 'progressive virtual full' and > have > some hint/conf to share? > I used it a lot back then, but until we have de

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-21 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> I'm not currently using web interfaces, and i prefere to understand and work > at config file levels, but thanks. I've done some tests, but lead to nothing. I'm basing my tests (apart on official docs) also on: https://www.bacula.lat/bacula-virtual-synthetic-full-and-forever-incremen

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-20 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> I've understood well? There's some way to have only ONE full at a time? Really no one here use 'virtual full' or 'progressive virtual full' and have some hint/conf to share? Thanks... Please... -- Non mi importa del petrolio, saro` un vile, un anormale ma questa volta alle Crociate n

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-18 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Marcin Haba In chel di` si favelave... > Bacularis provides the virtual full backup wizard that supports > configuring both virtual full and progressive virtual full. Here you > can find quick video guides about it: > Virtual full: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLN9zmcEhD0 > Progressive

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-15 Thread Marcin Haba
Hello Marco, Bacularis provides the virtual full backup wizard that supports configuring both virtual full and progressive virtual full. Here you can find quick video guides about it: Virtual full: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLN9zmcEhD0 Progressive virtual full: https://www.youtube.com/watch

[Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-15 Thread Marco Gaiarin
I need to setup some backups for some Windows machine, that generate a decent amount of data (100GB currently) but slowly increasing. I don't need to manage tapes or changers, it suffices to have a copy of data with a good retention elsewhere, in a safe place. Normally for this task i use File