Hi,
On 4/18/2007 6:55 PM, mevasquez wrote:
> I have been learning and trying to understand how Bacula works for the last
> two weeks. Here is my situation. For simplicity purpose, lets assume I
> have two servers (I actually have 37). My boss whats to have full backups
> to tape every Sunday, and incremental backups Monday through Friday to file.
> Currently I setup each machine with their individual files and included them
> in the bacula-dir.conf file as "@/etc/bacula/hosts/machine1". See link for
> a sample of the settings for http://www.nabble.com/file/7952/machine1
> machine1 machine1
>
> I specified three pools, Full, Incremental and Diff. I also specified a job
> for each day of the week, machine1_mon, machine1_tue, etc.
This is your problem, then. You need one single job for each backup to
do. The different leves, pools and storages can be configured in he
schedule.
> The storage was
> doe the same way, MonStorage_machine1, TueStorage_machine1. The storage
> device was also separated on a per machine basis, i.e. MonBackup_machine1,
> TueBackup_machine1.
Too complicated for me :-)
> The reason for this was that the Archive Device went to
> individual folders, one for Monday, one for Tuesday and so forth. A sample
> of this setting is as follows:
> Device {
> Name = MonBackup_Machine1
> Media Type = File
> Archive Device = /var/spool/backup/mon
> LabelMedia = yes; # lets
> Bacula label unlabeled media
> Random Access = Yes;
> RemovableMedia = no;
> AlwaysOpen = no;
> }
>
> One of the problems I have noticed is that when there is no Full backup and
> I want to do an incremental backup, bacula will force a full backup. That
> would be ok because I thought if I did a full backup this Tuesday and then
> next Tuesday I believe I would get an incremental backup but that did not
> happen. I am trying to understand why an incremental was not done.
This is because of the different jobs you have.
> What would be the best method of configuring bacula to do a full backup
> every Sunday and then incrementals Mon through Fri. I am still confused
> about the usage of volumes. Can someone explain this in better detail? If
> "Maximum Volume Jobs = 1" mean one job per volume and therefore an
> incremental will never happen? What should it be set to?
Not automatically, only if you keep your data for too short a time.
> These are only a few of the questions I have.
>
> TIA
>
> Mike
Arno
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