Great glad it worked, Yeah I forgot about that, I add that to my template and then I disable spooling in specific jobs eg archive jobs that I know the system is fast enough to saturate the tape drive.
Welcome to Bareos! Brock Palen [email protected] www.mlds-networks.com Websites, Linux, Hosting, Joomla, Consulting > On Jan 19, 2022, at 5:26 PM, Mi Zi <[email protected]> wrote: > > hi Palen > sorry for the delay ... but better late than never :) > here is some comment with regards spooling feature: > this doesn´t work for me until i set the following parameter on Job level: > see here Spool Data (Dir->Job) > Spool Data = yes > this setting can be overwritten in a Schedule: see here Run (Dir->Schedule) > the rest works like a charme at present time. > > greetings michael > > Mi Zi schrieb am Samstag, 4. Dezember 2021 um 19:40:49 UTC+1: > hello plane ... big thx for your time to share this informations ... i will > check this an comment my experiences > > [email protected] schrieb am Samstag, 4. Dezember 2021 um 16:34:19 > UTC+1: > I only use clients on Windows so have never ran the director or storage on > Windows. > > By tape drive working I’m assuming you mean you used btape and ran the tests > included with it? If so you should have the approrate ’storage’ config and > the storage director working. If not here is my config for my stand alone > tape drive, highly recomend use spool if your spool location in your server > is fast enough to avoid drive start / stops, for LTO8 that probably means > something that can sustain 200MB/s+ preferablly closer to 500MB/s but all > LTO8 drive have speed matching. Spooling will avoid a lot of start/stops. > > # goes in bareos-sd.conf > Device { > Name = T-LTO4 > Autochanger = no > Drive Index = 0 > Media Type = LTO4 > Archive Device = /dev/nst0 > Device Type = Tape > Maximum File Size = 20000000000 # 20 GB > Spool Directory = /mnt/spool/Q-LTO4 > Maximum Job Spool Size = 80000000000 > Maximum Spool Size = 160000000000 > Drive Crypto Enabled = Yes > Query Crypto Status = yes > Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1 > } > > > # storage config goes in the director config and says how to talk to the > devices on the storage deamon > Storage { > Name = T-LTO4 > Address = myth > Password = “<snip>" > Device = T-LTO4 > Media Type = LTO4 > Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1 > Auto Changer = no > } > > # pool config goes in director config and says how to treat volumes. You > don’t need “next pool” that’s used for migraiton /copy jobs. For your use > case you probably want to adjust Volume Use Duraction so the next week the > system asks for a new volume (tape) so your not stacking jobs across multiple > weeks on one tape. This is all your volume config also. Notice how it > attached the volumes in this “pool” to the storage deff above which tells how > to connect to teh stroage server etc. > Pool { > Name = LTO4 > Pool Type = Backup > Recycle = no # Bareos can automatically recycle Volumes > AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes > Job Retention = 12 months > Volume Retention = 12 months > Volume Use Duration = 3 weeks > Next Pool = Offsite # consolidated jobs go to this pool > Storage = T-LTO4 > } > > Now because you only want a full once a week, and nothing more involved you > would control that with a Schedule. In your case it would look like > Schedule { > Name = "ServerCycle" > Description = "For servers and other over night backups" > Run = Full sun at 1:05 > #Run = Differential 2nd-5th sun at 23:05 > #Run = Incremental Jan-Dec sun-sat at 2:05 > } > > You can use the same schedule with multiple jobs, given everything I’m doing > here only runs one job at a time, all 3 servers will kick off at the same > time, but 2 will wait till the first one finishes, next and next etc. So it’s > ok to reuse the same schedule for multiple jobs. > > Higly recomend you read the documentation closely, and’t don’t jump right > into modifying to match what I pasted here, make sure you client/dir/storage > can all talk to each other > > status client > status dir > status storage > > Once they can all talk to each other, then setup the storage make sure it > shows everything correctly, then start modying filesets/jobs/schedules, > lastly mess with volume settings, because that’s the thing I personally got > hung up on the most often. > > > > Brock Palen > [email protected] > www.mlds-networks.com > Websites, Linux, Hosting, Joomla, Consulting > > > > > On Nov 29, 2021, at 4:56 PM, Mi Zi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > hello all > > > > i am a "bareos" beginner and have to get the following request up and > > running under time pressure: > > > > Requirement: > > Full backup from 3 Windows Server to external LTO-8 Tapedrive (total of > > approx. 5 TB of data) > > the Full backup should run weekly for all Servers stored into one Tape > > No Differential or Incremential only Fullbackup every week. > > and at present time 6 Tapes are available > > > > currently i have a "clean" bareos installation up and running (20.0.3) > > the external Tape drive is connected and i did some tests and it seems > > working > > > > what should the pool / volume config look like ... as well as the storage > > device config! > > > > thx in advance > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "bareos-users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/49d17e62-dee7-4a3f-a86c-afb7a4188c45n%40googlegroups.com. > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "bareos-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/e41789f0-88e2-41c3-8a09-84d4b6c39ff5n%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. 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