On 8/31/17 8:13 AM, Douglas K. Rand wrote:
> On 8/31/17 1:32 AM, Julian Poß wrote:
>> However, do you know how bareos handles incremental backups? For
>> example i want to keep 14 restore points on disk, and one complete
>> week of all backups per tape set.
>>
>> This (imo) will require two jobs per client, where one of them writes
>> to disk and the other to tape. But does bareos know, that the
>> incremental backup stored on disk should be ignored, while creating
>> the next incremental backup for tape? Since this will probably be
>> done by two seperated jobs, bareos should know the different data,
>> based on the job history/job state, right?
>>
>> Furthermore, i guess you do not have any experiences regarding
>> multiple storage devices on a single director, do you? I would be
>> relieved, if somebody could confirm my guesses regarding the bug and
>> fix. Thanks again, so much!
>
> So, I have a configuration that is fairly on point for you. I do
> always incremental backups to disk with 30 restore points on disk.
>
> And each week I do off-site backups to tape using virtual full
> backups. This is quite neat in that the virtual full backups do not go
> back to the client, instead they build a synthetic full backup based
> upon all of the backups available on disk on the server.
>
> The trick that I found for having Bareos then ignore the off-site
> backups for other operations is this tiny script that gets run after
> each virtual full backup via:
>
> run after job =
> "/usr/meridian/share/libexec/bareos/turn_virtual-full-into-archive %i"
>
In the manual there's a way to do this without a shell command. Section
23.6.2.
Run Script {
console = "update jobid=%i jobtype=A"
Runs When = After
Runs On Client = No
Runs On Failure = No
}
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