On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:08:11 +0200 Uwe Schuerkamp <uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net> wrote:
> Hi folks, > > we recently changed our backup policy from tape- to disk-based, so I > created two pools based on separate filestorage devices (two separate > dirs) to hold the full and incremental backup volumes. > > Today I tried a restore job using both incr. and full volumes, and > when bacula (5.2.6 on centos 6) needed to access the incremental > volumes, it tried to open them in the full filestorage directory as > opposed to the incremental filestorage directory. > > I worked around the situation by creating symlinks in the full > filestorage directory pointing to the incremental backup volume files > and bacula readily accepted those links and read the incremental stuff > off the volumes. > > I wonder if this is the expected behaviour, or would it be better to > keep both pools in a single directory (if that's even possible)? > Should I have modified the Storage resource before starting the > restore job (alhough the restore job needed both full and incremental > volumes)? > > All the best & thanks in advance, Uwe > > I had this issue in the past as well. The solution was to change what type of media. Here is an example out of my SD configuration file. Device = Differential Media Type = File-Diff I had to update my pools to reflect the new media type and backups and restores work with out having to use the symlinks. -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
