Hi Robert, I think the important distinction that you haven't grasped is that you can use the same pool for multiple jobs/schedules/levels. ;0)
For instance you could just have One pool e.g. "Default" and have volumes labeled in that pool then tell all of your jobs (WeeklyFull, DailyDifferential, Catalog, FoobarJob) to use the "Default" pool. For instance consider the hypothetical directives below (bacula-dir.conf): Pool { Name = "Foobar" Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 14 days Accept Any Volume = yes } Pool { Name = "FULL" Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 365 days Accept Any Volume = yes } JobDefs { Name = "DefaultJob" Type = Backup Client = "Some-Client" Storage = "TAPE" Messages = Standard Priority = 10 } Job { Name = "Weekly Full" Level = Full JobDefs = "DefaultJob" FileSet = "ALL" Schedule = "Weekly" Pool = "FULL" Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/WeeklyFull.bsr" } Job { Name = "Daily Diff" Level = Differential JobDefs = "DefaultJob" Fileset = "ALL" Schedule = "WeekDays" Pool = "Foobar" Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/DailyDiff.bsr" } Job { Name = "BackupCatalog" JobDefs = "DefaultJob" Level = Full Fileset = "Catalog" Schedule = "WeeklyCycleAfterBackup" RunBeforeJob = "/etc/bacula/scripts/make_catalog_backup -u<user> -p<password>" RunAfterJob = "/etc/bacula/scripts/delete_catalog_backup" Pool = "Foobar" Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/DailyDiff.bsr" Priority = 11 } Notice both of the "BackupCatalog" and "Daily Diff" jobs use the same pool "Foobar" In your case since you don't have an autoloader, you could create 2 jobs for backing up the Catalog with 2 different schedules and pools used. I.E. have one catalog backup scheduled to run after your Full backup using the same Pool as your full backup, and one catalog backup scheduled to run after your Differentials and use the same Pool as your Differential job. Hope this helped... Cheers, Silas Bennett =0) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Buurke Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 5:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Bacula backup problem >You can have multiple pools of tapes that use the same tape device; >there's not a problem with that. It just means you have to switch the >tape or have an autoloader do so. I understand. I do this for the Weekly (Weekly pool) & Monthly (Monthly pool) tape(s). These pools share the same tape device. But the switching of the tape (not an autoloader) is not an option. >Personally, I do my nightly Catalog backups on the same tape as my >nightly incrementals and weekly differentials. I'm interessed how you defined that situation in your bacula-dir.conf. Is it possible if I can have a look at how you accomplished that? ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users