Hey, Marco. Apologies on taking so long to respond. I dug into the manual
more, specifically the section dealing with Migration jobs. Apparently
bareos will not allow you to do a virtual full backup from one storage
device to the same storage device (the manual even mentioned the need for
different media types).
I created a new pool (Brick01Storage_virt) and assigned it as the 'Next
Pool' in my other pool definitions (I've appended sanitized pool and
storage definitions). Virtual Full backups will now run successfully.
However, now I have a serious problem with both backup time and storage
capacity. I was looking for functionality like "Merge everything before
this date into a new Full backup to use as a baseline for incrementals and
differentials". The functionality I'm currently getting is "Make a merged
copy of the data in another storage pool". As my production system contains
a Petabyte of clustered storage, the model I have implemented isn't
reasonable for daily backups.
The goal is currently to keep 10 days of incrementals. I can't do a "Full"
backup of this much data every ten days and I also can't copy/merge a
petabyte (and growing) of data in that time (nor do I have the 2x space
needed to do this). Is there any option in bareos for an in-place (or near
to in-place) merge of old jobs?
If not, is there any other solution you can think of for this type of
problem?
I appreciate your time,
Patrick
Config entries:
===================
Pool
{
Name =
Incremental
Pool Type =
Backup
Recycle =
yes
AutoPrune =
yes
Volume Retention = 10
days
Maximum Volume Bytes =
200G
Label Format =
"Incremental-"
Next Pool =
VFull
Storage =
Brick01Storage
}
... (other pools follow
suit)...
Pool
{
Name =
VFull
Description = virtual full backups and
migrations
Pool Type =
Backup
Recycle =
yes
AutoPrune =
yes
Volume Retention = 10
days
File Retention = 10
days
Maximum Volume Bytes =
200G
Label Format =
"VFull-"
Storage =
Brick01Storage_virt
}
Storage
{
Name =
Brick01Storage
Address =
ffib01bkp
Password =
"password1"
Device =
brick01
Media Type =
File
}
Storage
{
Name =
Brick01Storage_virt
Address =
ffib01bkp
Password =
"password2"
Device =
brick01_virt
Media Type =
File_virt
}
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 5:15 AM, Marco Weiß <marco.we...@kesslernetworks.de>
wrote:
> On Monday, October 5, 2015 at 5:36:56 PM UTC+2, Patrick Glomski wrote:
> > I waited over the weekend while the scheduled jobs continued to run
> successfully as usual. However, my virtual full backup job is still sitting
> 'waiting on max storage jobs'. Does anyone use the virtual full backup
> functionality who can point me in the right direction?
> >
> >
> > Console connected at 05-Oct-15 11:34
> > JobId Level Name Status
> > ======================================================================
> > 13 Virtual backupfrackib01gfssource.2015-09-30_14.41.49_08 is
> waiting on max Storage jobs
> > ====
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Patrick
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Glomski, Patrick <
> patrick...@corvidtec.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I would like to use the Virtual Full job in bareos to combine a full
> backup with a set of differentials / incrementals to make a new full
> backup. To do this, I made a new pool
> >
> > Pool {
> > Name = VFull
> > Pool Type = Backup
> > Recycle = yes
> > AutoPrune = yes
> > Label Format = "VFull-"
> > Storage = Brick01Storage
> > }
> >
> > Then, I added this pool as the 'Next Pool' to each of the other pools
> (Next Pool = VFull) to allow migration. When I try to run my backup job and
> change the backup level to 'Virtual Full', the job sits there 'waiting on
> max Storage jobs'.
> >
> > 13 Virtual backupfrackib01gfssource.2015-09-30_14.41.49_08 is
> waiting on max Storage jobs
> >
> > There is only one mention of this status in the bareos manual: where one
> job was waiting on another job to finish because it was using the storage
> resource. However, I have no other jobs running. Just for kicks, I started
> up an incremental backup while the virtual full backup was waiting. The
> incremental ran fine, but the virtual full is still waiting.
> >
> > Could anyone uses virtual full please explain what the cause of this
> message is and how to get my virtual full backup working?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Patrick
>
> Hi Patrick can you please runt that command and paste the output
>
> status storage=Brick01Storage
>
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