On 11/16/16 09:12, Paul J R wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a data set that i'd like to backup thats large and not very > important. Backing it up is a "nice to have" not a must have. I've been > trying to find a way to back it up to disk that isnt disruptive to the > normal flow of backups, but everytime i end up in a place where bacula > wants to do a full backup of it (which takes too long and ends up > getting cancelled). > > Currently im using 7.0.5 and something i noticed in the 7.4 tree is the > ability to resume stopped jobs but from my brief testing of it I wont > quite do what Im after either. Ideally what im trying to achieve is give > bacula 1 hour a night to backup as much as it can and then stop. Setting > a time limit doesnt work cause the backup just gets cancelled and it > forgets everything its backed up already and tries to start from scratch > again the following night. > > VirtualFull doesnt really do what im after either and i've also tried > populating the database directly in a way that makes it think its > already got a full backup (varying results, and none of them fantastic). > A full backup of the dataset in one hit isnt realistically achievable. > > Before I give up though, im curious if anyone has tried doing similar > and what results/ideas they had that might work?
This is a pretty difficult problem. To restate the problem, it sounds like you are trying to create a consistent full backup, in piecewise slices an hour or two at a time, of a large dataset that is changing while you're trying to back it up - but without ever actually performing a full backup. The problem with this is that you need to be able to keep state of a stopped backup for arbitrary periods, and at the same time keep track of whether there have been changes to what you have already backed up, and you don't have a full backup to refer back to. The only thing I can think of is, is the dataset structured such that you could split it [logically] into multiple chunks and back them up as separate individual jobs? -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications ph...@caerllewys.net p...@co.ordinate.org Landline: 603.293.8485 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
