Ana,

Thank you for your reply.

The job defaults resource had the Schedule specified in it.  The Schedule 
resource did not have a specified Storage resource in it.  I have added the 
Storage resource to the Schedule resource and created a separate Schedule 
resource for the server to go to a separate location.  I have then cleaned up 
the Job Defaults, and added the proper Schedule to each Job resource 
(explicitly).  I will let you know how these changes work tomorrow.


Thank you!

Adam Clark

From: Ana Emília M. Arruda [mailto:emiliaarr...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 4:19 AM
To: Adam Clark
Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog writing to wrong storage device

Hello Adam,

Do you have any storage resource defined in the pool or schedule resources 
defined for this job? The pool is not defined in your BackupCatalog job, 
therefore I suppose it is spedified in the schedule resource for this job?

Best regards,
Ana

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 12:18 AM, Adam Clark 
<a...@eryjus.com<mailto:a...@eryjus.com>> wrote:
Hello all,

I have been using Bacula to back up several servers for about 2 months now.  I 
now would like to take the next step to FTP my backups off-site.  However, I 
back up about 10GB each night and that is a bit too much data to move every 
night.  My backups are to the file system.

To get around this, I have created a second storage device that puts a backup 
in a subfolder that I will not FTP.  The remaining backups are left to the 
original storage device.  By the way, I have pools Sun to Sat set up, plus a 
Perm pool.  These all work fine.

So far, everything is working as I would expect…  except, the catalog backup is 
not going to the device (and therefore the volume mounted on that device) that 
I specify.  Let me try to elaborate:

Server A backup kicks off at 22:00 and writes to storage Z
Server B backup kicks off at 22:00 and writes to storage Z
Server C backup kicks off at 22:00 and writes to storage Z
Server D backup kicks off at 22:00 and writes to storage Y
Catalog backup kicks off at 23:55 and is supposed to write to storage Z, but 
attempts to write to storage Y.

Now, since the volume it is expecting does not reside in storage Z, it 
invalidates the volume to which it wanted to write (sets it to Error), and 
ultimately finds the correct volume on the correct storage.  However, it leaves 
me with a volume in error each night.

I’m afraid that my only solution is to create a second pool set (Sun-Sat + Perm 
for this 1 server) in order to get the catalog to write to the correct storage 
device.  That is bit of complexity I did not want to take on if I could help it.

Here is the catalog backup job in my bacula-dir.conf:

Job {
Name = "BackupCatalog"
JobDefs = "DefaultJob"
Level = Full
Client = Bacula-Server
FileSet="Catalog"
Schedule = "FullCatalog"
Storage = Backup-File
RunBeforeJob = 
"/usr/libexec/bacula/make_catalog_backup.pl<http://make_catalog_backup.pl> 
MyCatalog"
RunAfterJob  = "/usr/libexec/bacula/delete_catalog_backup"
Write Bootstrap = "/var/spool/bacula/%n.bsr"
Priority = 11                                 # run after main backup
}

Notice I am explicit about the storage to which to write the catalog.

Is there anything I might be missing before I set up another set of pools?

Thanks in advance for your help!



Thank you!

Adam Clark

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