On Wednesday 16 March 2011 01:32:29 Mike Carlson wrote:
> I've been semi-successful with doing daily incrementals, and then a
> VirtualFull at the end of the month. However, after two months of doing
> this, the virtual full wants lasts months virtual full. This isn't
> working because the File device cannot read and write simultaneously to
> itself... It appears to be a chicken and the egg problem that I don't
> know how to work around.
>
> Here is my schedule:
>
> Schedule {
> Name = "1am"
> Run = Incremental mon-sun at 01:30
> }
>
> Schedule {
> Name = "1am-vf"
> Run = VirtualFull 3rd sun at 01:30
> }
>
> A client has two jobs, one for the first Full and incrementals, and
> another job for the virtual full.
>
> Job {
> Name = "client-a"
> Type = Backup
> Level = Incremental
> FileSet = "client-a FileSet"
> Client = "client-a"
> Storage = FileStorageD2
> Pool = client-a-File
> Schedule = "1am"
> Messages = Standard
> Priority = 10
> Write Bootstrap = "/var/db/bacula/%c.bsr"
> Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10
> Reschedule On Error = yes
> Reschedule Interval = 1 hour
> Reschedule Times = 8
> Allow Duplicate Jobs = no
> }
>
> Job {
> Name = "client-a-vf"
> Type = Backup
> Level = VirtualFull
> FileSet = "client-a FileSet"
> Client = "client-a"
> Storage = VF_FileStorageD2
> Pool = client-a-File
> Schedule = "1am-vf"
> Messages = Standard
> Priority = 10
> Write Bootstrap = "/var/db/bacula/%c.bsr"
> Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10
> Reschedule On Error = yes
> Reschedule Interval = 1 hour
> Reschedule Times = 8
> Allow Duplicate Jobs = no
> }
>
>
> Each client has two pools and two devices it can write to:
>
> Pool {
> Name = client-a-File
> Pool Type = Backup
> Recycle = yes
> AutoPrune = yes
> Volume Retention = 1 months
> Maximum Volume Bytes = 5G
> Maximum Volumes = 100
> LabelFormat = "client-aFileVol"
> Maximum Volume Jobs = 5
> Next Pool = client-a-vf
> Storage = FileStorageD2
> }
>
> Pool {
> Name = client-a-vf
> Pool Type = Backup
> Recycle = yes
> AutoPrune = yes
> Volume Retention = 1 months
> Maximum Volume Bytes = 5G
> Maximum Volumes = 100
> LabelFormat = "client-aVFVol"
> Maximum Volume Jobs = 5
> Storage = VF_FileStorageD2
> }
>
> One the filesystem, it ends up looking like this (I have a drive##, and
> a separate volume for virtual fulls called vf_drive##):
>
> # ls -l drive02/wiki*
> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 5368447065 Feb 17 01:11
> drive02/client-aFileVol3000
> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 5368447173 Feb 17 01:19
> drive02/client-aFileVol3004
> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 4866003704 Feb 21 01:00
> drive02/client-aFileVol3006
> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 2008089223 Feb 26 01:00
> drive02/client-aFileVol3134
> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 136824584 Mar 3 01:00
> drive02/client-aFileVol3295
> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 236109713 Mar 10 01:00
> drive02/client-aFileVol4272
> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 119846566 Mar 15 01:30
> drive02/client-aFileVol7651
>
> # ls -l VirtualFull/vf_drive02/wiki*
> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 5368447097 Mar 6 09:07
> VirtualFull/vf_drive02/client-aVFVol5720
> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 5368447166 Mar 6 09:08
> VirtualFull/vf_drive02/client-aVFVol5722
> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 5368447187 Mar 6 09:10
> VirtualFull/vf_drive02/client-aVFVol5725
> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 286220965 Mar 6 09:10
> VirtualFull/vf_drive02/client-aVFVol5728
>
> So, is there a way for a virtual full to read from itself to generate a
> new virtual full, without having to move or clone volumes around?
>
> Or, is there any advice in general where I can achieve a similar goal?
> Where I can avoid doing a monthly full, but rely on incrementals and
> virtual fulls to create new virtual fulls?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike C
Hi Mike.
You seem to have the same file-pool defined for both jobs. No?
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