Hi Arno, Tank you very much for your answer.
Now let me see if I got this right :-) As I understand the big no no with the way I implemented my config files is that I have three pools (full, diff and incr) and defined multiple jobs (one full-job and one incr-job) for each client which maps against multiple storage devices and this is not allowed in Bacula? Beside this I also very much would like my client jobs to run concurrently against the director so that the backups will finish faster ;-) The way you describe that can be used instead is to have two pools (full + incr), two storage devices, one job resource and two schedules (one schedule with another storage device specified). Have I understood your suggestions right? Do you use this config with concurrent backups? I don´t know if I understand your other suggestion about joining the partitions, when the thing I would like to do is to have full backups to go to one partition and the incremental backups to another partition... But maybe it´s just me misunderstanding your suggestions :-) Again... A big thank you for your advice! Best regards, Jonte Norman On 6/7/05, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > this is one of the guys on this list :-) > > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > Unfortunately, Bacula does not support what you are trying to do. The guys > > on > > this list will help you do what you want using Pools -- one Job and one > > Storage device. > > You could override the jobs storage device setting in the schedule. > For example, define the job with the storage for full backup, use full > pool and incremental pool settings, and in the schedule for the > incremental you add storage=xxx > > Something like this works here with tapes and different tape drives. > > BUT there are some more-or-less serious disadvantages: > - automatic job upgrading doesn't work as it should, and > - restore can be a pain. > > You can find more details in the list archive. Or, best solution, try it > for yourself :-) as that's the only way to definitely find out if the > additional trouble is ok for you. > > In your place, I'd use your system's volume management to simply join > the available partitions. Of course, that increases the risk of errors, > but that's what you get for doing backups to tape ;-) > > Arno > > > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 14:51, Jonte Norman wrote: > > > >>Hi Kern, > >> > >>Thanks for your quick answer. > >> > >>Maybe I was somewhat unclear in my problem description :-) > >> > >>I´ve defined two jobs and two storage devices for each client, one > >>job/storage device for full and diff backups and one job/storage > >>device for incremental backups... > >> > >>The reason why I did this is because I want the volumes containing the > >>full and diff backups to be stored on a different partition on my disk > >>storage. > >> > >>I´ve specified "Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 4" in bacula-dir.conf and > >>bacula-sd.conf and when all the client starts at the same time Bacula > >>seems to get confused about which volume to create on each storage > >>device. > >> > >>Best regards, > >> > >>Jonte Norman > >> > >>On 6/7/05, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>>Bacula does not support multiple different MediaTypes or Storage devices > >>>within the same Job. > >>> > >>>On Tuesday 07 June 2005 14:03, Jonte Norman wrote: > >>> > >>>>Hi, > >>>> > >>>>I´m using Bacula to backup all my clients to a large disk storage... > >>>> > >>>>In my bacula-dir.conf I´ve specified so that a separate volume should > >>>>be created for each of my clients full, diff and incr backups. These > >>>>volumes should also be stored on different disks/partitions based on > >>>>if they are full or incr backups. > >>>> > >>>>This works somewhat fine :-) But the problem is that even thou I´ve > >>>>specified different storage devices for each client in their job > >>>>resources the director tries to create a wrongly named volume (a > >>>>volume for another client) on the specified storage device. > >>>> > >>>>Here is a bit of a mail report from Bacula that I´ve cut and pasted: > >>>> > >>>>---snip--- > >>>> > >>>>05-Jun 14:50 nitrogen-dir: Start Backup JobId 26, > >>>>Job=platinum-full.2005-06-05_14.50.01 > >>>>05-Jun 14:50 nitrogen-sd: platinum-full.2005-06-05_14.50.01 Warning: > >>>>Volume "nitrogen-full.2005-06-05_14.50.00" not on device > >>>>/vol/1/platinum-full. > >>>>05-Jun 14:50 nitrogen-sd: Marking Volume > >>>>"nitrogen-full.2005-06-05_14.50.00" in Error in Catalog. > >>>>05-Jun 14:50 nitrogen-sd: Labeled new Volume > >>>>"thorium-full.2005-06-05_14.50.02" on device /vol/1/platinum-full. > >>>>05-Jun 14:50 nitrogen-sd: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume > >>>>"thorium-full.2005-06-05_14.50.02" on device "/vol/1/platinum-full" > >>>> > >>>>---snip--- > >>>> > >>>>Does anyone have a clue on why this is happening? > >>>>Maybe I´ve done something wrong when configuring the bacula-dir and sd > >>>>config files ? :-) > >>>>I can mail the content of the config files if this will help... > >>>> > >>>>Best regards, > >>>> > >>>>Jonte Norman > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. 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