I've been using bareos for quite some time, mostly with the standard Full, Differential, Incremental backup scheme. The parameters used for this scheme seem to be fairly clear.
Recently I have had a need to use the Always Incremental scheme and Virtual Full backups for offsite storage. It seems that the parameters used for these are sometimes the same as the standard scheme and sometimes aren't. It also appears that new parameters have been added in the past few years to help with these new schemes, however it hasn't been very clear to me which parameters matter. Is there a good guide somewhere of what parameters are used for each scheme? I found the documentation of the Always Incremental scheme helpful. That seems pretty good. I find the most trouble with Virtual Full backups for offsites. My questions are: - What pool is used for the source of a Virtual Full backup? Or is that a pointless question because bareos doesn't source from a pool for such a backup, but rather considers all backup jobs for the particular client that aren't archive jobs and uses whatever pool those volumes are in. - What pool is used for the destination of the Virtual Full backup? - Pool -> Next Pool? - Job -> Next Pool? - Job -> Virtual Full Backup Pool? This one appears to have been added since I first looked at Virtual Full backups about 5 years ago and is perhaps the correct one to use. I have not used Copy or Migration jobs, although feel like I would have similar questions for those jobs as I do for Virtual Full backups. -- 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 bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/eaf8d53c-1c9c-408a-907e-908571011e68n%40googlegroups.com.
