Hello,
Jonte Norman wrote:
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 ;-)
Hmm. Should work. BUT using more than one Media Type (and thus,
implicitly, more than one storage device) makes restoring rather
difficult. But you _have_ to use one job definition per... yes, per job :-)
Not one job for full and one job for diff, both using the same fileset.
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?
Ok, I don't know how much of the manual you already read ;-) Of course,
you can also use three pools (and storage devices), but I want to keep
the axplanation simple. And you only define one job.
Like this:
Define job with client, fileset, name, schedule, options. You can use
the directives to setup different pools per backup level.
You create one schedule:
Setup name and multiple run lines, for example
run= storage=S-Full level=Full pool=Full fri at 23:00
run= storage=S-Diff level=Differential pool=Diff mon-thu at 23:00
that's all.
And yes, you can run jobs concurrently, although using spooling seems to
be avery good idea then. I do that and it works ok.
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
:-)
Or I misunderstood what you need. I thought that space considerations
were the reason to distribute backups to different partitions, and those
you can overcome. If your reasons for using two partitions are
different, then, of course, volume management is not automatically the
way to the easiest solution...
Arno
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
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