Hello, > Le 15 juil. 2026 à 14:37, Josh Fisher via Bacula-users > <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > On 7/14/26 12:43, Rob Gerber wrote: >> I wonder if spooldata = yes/no or a joddef resource can be given as a >> parameter for a schedule line. Not sure. I don't have the bacula manuals in >> front of me. > > No. You can override the job level, storage, pool, and message resources to > use, but not the spooling. >
Sorry Josh, but I believe that the spooldata parameter can be set in command line and in the schedule. Maybe the documentation is not accurate on this point. Best Regards, Eric > However, despooling at the end of a job deletes any spool files written to a > volume, therefore frees space as soon as the job finishes. There's not much > reason to turn it off for incremental jobs only, since they generally run > daily and are small. With small spool files from daily incrementals, it won't > really slow the jobs down that much, just the time needed to write the spool > file to the volume file on disk. If incrementals are known to be huge, then > you could write incrementals to tape too. Ultimately, I think you either need > more tapes or more disk space, but the data has to go somewhere. > > >> >> Otherwise, if you have suitable disk space, you could write your full and >> diff backups to disk, then copy or migrate them off to tape. Spool data >> would be set off for the disk jobs, and set on for the copy/migrate jobs. >> Migrate would be the strategy that frees disk space as soon as possible, if >> you have enough disk to hold one round of fulls, but not enough for all the >> fulls in your catalog. >> >> >> Robert Gerber >> 402-237-8692 >> [email protected] >> >> On Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 11:33 AM Lloyd Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, all. >> >> With my new Bacula 15 deployment, I'm running into something I'd like to >> do, but I don't think there's a feature for it yet. But before I submit >> a feature request, I wanted to sanity check, and see if anyone had an >> alternative that I hadn't considered. >> >> Here's the deal. I have jobs that run Full, Differential and >> Incremental jobs. The Full and Differential jobs are supposed to go to >> a tape pool, and should use data spooling. The Incremental jobs are >> supposed to go to a disk pool, and should not use data spooling. The >> job can have "Full Backup Pool", "Differential Backup Pool", etc., >> defined, so different job types can end up in different pools. But >> there's no similar job-type-specific "Spool Data" attribute, is there? >> >> Right now, I can handle this by putting in parameters in the Schedule's >> "run" lines. And if those jobs are successful, then great. But if not >> (eg. a Full has failed), then subsequent Incremental jobs might get >> upgraded to be a Full. If I have the "Full Backup Pool" specified, that >> upgraded job would (I assume) end up in the right pool, but wouldn't >> have the correct spooling set up. Or if I don't have the "Full Backup >> Pool" set, then it will end up in the disk pool, instead of the tape >> pool, albeit with the appropriate spool behavior for the disk pool. >> >> I'll put an example of one of my jobs below, so you can tell me what I >> might be missing. Or I can explain again, if this isn't clear. >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Lloyd >> >> >> >> Example job: >> >> > Job { >> > Type = Backup >> > Name = vhome_a >> > FileSet = "vhome_a_fileset" >> > Level = Incremental >> > schedule = "homedir-1-schedule" >> > Pool = Disk-granite1 >> > Storage = granite1-sd-disk >> > Messages = Standard >> > Priority = 10 >> > Spool Data = yes >> > Spool Attributes = yes >> > Accurate = yes >> > Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/%c.bsr" >> > Client = granite1-fd >> > Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1 >> > >> > #I might consider using the following, especially if I had similar >> > "Spool Data" parameters by job type: >> > #Full Backup Pool = Tape-Pool-1 >> > #Differential Backup Pool = Tape-Pool-1 >> > } >> > >> > >> > Schedule { >> > Name = "homedir-1-schedule" >> > >> > Run = Level=Full Pool=Tape-Pool-1 SpoolData=yes 1st mon at >> > 01:00 Jan,Apr,Jul,Oct >> > Run = Level=Differential Pool=Tape-Pool-1 SpoolData=yes 1st mon at >> > 01:00 Feb,Mar,May,Jun,Aug,Sep,Nov,Dec >> > Run = Level=Incremental SpoolData=no 2nd-5th mon >> > at 01:00 #no pool specified, will come from Job/JobDefs >> > } >> >> -- >> Lloyd Brown >> HPC Systems Administrator >> Office of Research Computing >> Brigham Young University >> http://rc.byu.edu >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bacula-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bacula-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >> > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
