I'm setting up a backup for some client, mostly windows devices, mostly medical system (EEG, EMG, ...).
They are 'clients', eg they get powered on on need, they not are 'always on' or powered on on every days. My target was: - start backup at some hour, and be a bit 'aggressive' trying to retry backup (wait the power on of the system) until done - use VirtualFull, to do only incrementals and so put clients on minimal load - don't supose nothing on clients, eg 'client get powered on at least 3 days a week'... Saying that, i've done a pool like that: Pool { Name = FVG-SV-VWSSV1FilePool Pool Type = Backup NextPool = FVG-SV-VWSSV1FilePool Storage = SVPVE3FileMulti Maximum Volume Jobs = 6 Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Action On Purge = Truncate } Note that there's no 'Volume Retention = ', so no volume retention. ;-) In every pool there are 3 volumes, simple file volumes. Now job is: Job { Name = FVG-SV-VWSSV1 JobDefs = DefaultJob Storage = SVPVE3FileMulti Pool = FVG-SV-VWSSV1FilePool Messages = StandardClient Schedule = WeeklyClient Reschedule On Error = yes Reschedule Interval = 30 minutes Reschedule Times = 8 Max Run Sched Time = 8 hours Accurate = yes Backups To Keep = 10 Delete Consolidated Jobs = yes Client = fvg-sv-vwssv1-fd FileSet = TS1000Std Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/FVG-SV-VWSSV1.bsr" } All scheduled with: Schedule { Name = WeeklyClient Run = Incremental mon-fri at 8:00 Run = VirtualFull sun at 8:00 } In this way, all work as expected. Incremental runs, and weekly a VirtualFull job 'consolidate' jobs, keeping 10 backups and purging other jobs (so applying retention 'by number of jobs' and not 'by age of jobs'). Wonderful! But there are two drawbacks: 1) because i need incremental backups to be 'aggressive', the VirtualFull one are aggressive too; so, if fail because there's no sufficient jobs to consolidate, they are retried 8 time before to give it up. This clearly is totally unuseful. 2) VirtualFull consolidate backups and remove consolidated jobs, but remove ONLY correctly terminated jobs: *list jobs client=fvg-sv-vwssv1-fd Using Catalog "BaculaLNF" +--------+--------------------------+---------------------+------+-------+----------+-------------+-----------+ | jobid | name | starttime | type | level | jobfiles | jobbytes | jobstatus | +--------+--------------------------+---------------------+------+-------+----------+-------------+-----------+ | 16,614 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-01 08:40:46 | B | I | 0 | 0 | A | | 16,660 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-02 16:01:11 | B | I | 0 | 0 | A | | 16,767 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-05 08:00:02 | B | F | 0 | 0 | A | | 16,807 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-06 08:35:16 | B | I | 0 | 0 | A | | 16,847 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-07 14:06:41 | B | I | 0 | 0 | A | | 16,887 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-08 16:01:15 | B | I | 0 | 0 | A | | 16,927 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-09 15:22:07 | B | I | 0 | 0 | A | | 17,033 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-12 16:01:13 | B | F | 0 | 0 | A | | 17,073 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-13 13:46:29 | B | I | 0 | 0 | A | | 17,430 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-22 11:14:40 | B | F | 0 | 0 | A | | 17,435 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-22 11:17:53 | B | F | 0 | 0 | A | | 17,436 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-22 11:31:27 | B | F | 0 | 0 | A | | 17,434 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-22 11:32:21 | B | F | 0 | 0 | A | | 17,449 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-22 11:33:38 | B | F | 9 | 154,380,338 | T | | 17,439 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-22 11:34:31 | B | I | 2 | 127,566,004 | T | | 17,440 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-22 11:39:22 | B | I | 2 | 127,566,004 | T | | 17,441 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-22 11:40:30 | B | I | 2 | 127,566,004 | T | | 17,442 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-22 11:48:43 | B | I | 2 | 127,566,004 | T | | 17,443 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-22 11:58:40 | B | I | 2 | 127,566,004 | T | | 17,444 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-22 12:01:24 | B | I | 2 | 127,566,004 | T | | 17,445 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-22 12:07:45 | B | I | 2 | 127,566,004 | T | | 17,446 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-22 12:15:21 | B | I | 2 | 127,566,004 | T | | 17,447 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-22 12:17:43 | B | I | 2 | 127,566,004 | T | | 17,448 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1 | 2024-02-22 12:19:58 | B | I | 2 | 127,566,004 | T | +--------+--------------------------+---------------------+------+-------+----------+-------------+-----------+ error, cancelled jobs... remain always there. Both seems more nuisance that troubles, but... i hope there's a solution. Thanks. -- Mi piaccion le fiabe raccontane altre (F. Guccini) _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users