In the event of a restore, if I understand it correctly, let me illustrate an example. Say you have scheduled a full backup on Sunday and incremental backups Monday through Saturday. If somebody comes to you on Thursday and says that they deleted a folder on the file server yesterday (Wednesday), the restore would look for the most recent full backup (Sunday), restore it, then restore the changes in the incremental backup Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
Now, say I do a manual full backup on Tuesday, to take offsite. In the same restore scenario before, would Bacula then look for the most recent full backup (now Tuesday), and try to restore from it? (Since the tape would be inaccessible.) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan Novosielski Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 14:51 To: bacula-list Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling question I'm not sure I understand the question -- jobs behave the same way whether they are run by the scheduler or if they are run from the console. Incidentally, what I meant was that I clicked on the calendar in Data Protector and scheduled each monthly backup by hand (actually, did them monthly but modified those that fell on weekends), meaning that I had monthly backups except certain months and special backups on the first weekday of those special months, etc.. I'm not actually sure how you would handle something like this in bacula, as the schedules are defined prior to launch of the daemons and I'm not aware of any capability to add to the schedule from the console. But you could manually run these backups from the console on the day in question. ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - User Support Spec. III |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.| IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 Jeremy Koppel wrote: > Actually, just handling it manually is an interesting option, too, as we > need manual intervention to take the tape offsite anyway. But how does > Bacula handle a restore in that event? If you do differentials the rest > of the week, does it diff from your automated Sunday full backup, or > does it start with your full, manual, offsite backup, thus requiring you > to have it onhand in the event of a restore? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan > Novosielski > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 09:09 > To: Martin Simmons > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling question > > I learned that things like this were a problem when I started using > bacula, as there is no easy way to schedule it. As it was, with Data > Protector, I had been doing it by hand anyway. Doing the 1st and 3rd > Tuesday is how I ultimately handled the situation. We don't have off > hours staff anyway, and I had to try to avoid Monday and Friday since > they are often holidays. > > Martin Simmons wrote: > > >>>>>>> On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:42:09 +0100, Arno Lehmann >>>>>>> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> On 2/23/2006 8:11 PM, Jeremy Koppel wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> We've been using Bacula in our company since the >>>> > beginning > >>>> of the year with a good deal of success, but I had a scheduling >>>> > question > >>>> that I hadn't anticipated earlier. As part of our backup rotation, I >>>> > > >>>> have 2 additional pools, Offsite1 and Offsite2 (just 1 tape each for >>>> now), that are scheduled to be written to on alternating Saturdays. >>>> > How > >>>> it actually breaks down is: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> ... >>> >>> >>> >>>> * The Question: * >>>> >>>> But I see that we have a problem coming up in April; 5 Saturdays. So >>>> > if > >>>> I specify either pool for the 5^th Saturday, we loose our rotation. >>>> > I > >>>> see that what we actually need to do is to set these up for 'every >>>> > other > >>>> Saturday' regardless of when it falls during the month. My question >>>> > is, > >>>> how do you do that? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> I'd try using the week of year specification in the schedule. You'd >>> simply schedule like >>> >>> run = pool=offsite1 w01,w03,w05,... sat at 2:00 >>> >>> the problems here: I don't know if this actually works :-) and you >>> > still > >>> have to worry about the odd number of weeks per year. At least only >>> > one > >>> a year, and simply by swapping the pool definitions in the job >>> > overrides > >>> of the schedules... >>> >>> The better solution, also absolutely untested, would be to use the >>> python interface and implement a simple script that determines which >>> pool to use. I even assume it's impossible at the moment, because in >>> > the > >>> manual it states that the Pool attribute of a job object in python is >>> read-only... but that might change one fine day :-) >>> >>> >>> >> Another way is to run both jobs every week and have a RunBeforeJob >> > script that > >> returns an non-zero exit status if it is the wrong week (which causes >> > the job > >> to abort). >> >> __Martin >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting >> > language > >> that extends applications into web and mobile media. 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