Hi,
Adrian Close wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote:
This might give problems with job promotion, I try to avoid that by
starting the affected backups by hand.
Yeah. So, my problem now becomes that promoted incrementals want to use
the storage device defined in the job override. The promoted jobs
therefore get written to disk (provided I have an appropriate
FileStorage volume defined in my "full" pool). Scheduled full backups
go to the right device.
That's the problem, right.
I can indeed get around this by running jobs manually, but I'll
eventually have 150+ clients across three continents, so that gets
tricky. ;)
You could work around that by adding one job at a time to the config and
the schedules and start the initila full backup manually. That's some
work, but not too bad, considering you're usually doing it only once. Or
set up the schedules that the first full backup is scheduled just after
including it into the configuration.
I suppose I can live with promoted full backups going to disk, given
that the scheduled full backups will go to tape. The only thing I don't
really like about that is that it increases the likelihood of full
backups for often-absent clients never making it to tape.
Perhaps we need something like "Full Backup Storage" and "Incremental
Backup Storage" directives so different backup types can be locked to a
storage device.
Yes, that was discussed briefly, but I suppose that the upcoming python
support will change baculas handling of job promotion and thus I didn't
push that issue.
Alternatively, being able to attach a specific storage device to a pool
would do the trick.
That's unfortunately not how bacula is intended to work, I think.
Arno
Thoughts?
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