I'm setting up a backup for some client, mostly windows devices, mostly
medical system (EEG, EMG, ...).
They are 'clients', eg they get powered on on need, they not are 'always on'
or powered on on every days.
My target was:
- start backup at some hour, and be a bit 'aggressive' trying to retry
backup (wait the power on of the system) until done
- use VirtualFull, to do only incrementals and so put clients on minimal
load
- don't supose nothing on clients, eg 'client get powered on at least 3
days a week'...
Saying that, i've done a pool like that:
Pool {
Name = FVG-SV-VWSSV1FilePool
Pool Type = Backup
NextPool = FVG-SV-VWSSV1FilePool
Storage = SVPVE3FileMulti
Maximum Volume Jobs = 6
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Action On Purge = Truncate
}
Note that there's no 'Volume Retention = ', so no volume retention. ;-)
In every pool there are 3 volumes, simple file volumes.
Now job is:
Job {
Name = FVG-SV-VWSSV1
JobDefs = DefaultJob
Storage = SVPVE3FileMulti
Pool = FVG-SV-VWSSV1FilePool
Messages = StandardClient
Schedule = WeeklyClient
Reschedule On Error = yes
Reschedule Interval = 30 minutes
Reschedule Times = 8
Max Run Sched Time = 8 hours
Accurate = yes
Backups To Keep = 10
Delete Consolidated Jobs = yes
Client = fvg-sv-vwssv1-fd
FileSet = TS1000Std
Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/FVG-SV-VWSSV1.bsr"
}
All scheduled with:
Schedule {
Name = WeeklyClient
Run = Incremental mon-fri at 8:00
Run = VirtualFull sun at 8:00
}
In this way, all work as expected. Incremental runs, and weekly a
VirtualFull job 'consolidate' jobs, keeping 10 backups and purging other
jobs (so applying retention 'by number of jobs' and not 'by age of jobs').
Wonderful!
But there are two drawbacks:
1) because i need incremental backups to be 'aggressive', the VirtualFull
one are aggressive too; so, if fail because there's no sufficient jobs to
consolidate, they are retried 8 time before to give it up. This clearly is
totally unuseful.
2) VirtualFull consolidate backups and remove consolidated jobs, but remove
ONLY correctly terminated jobs:
*list jobs client=fvg-sv-vwssv1-fd
Using Catalog "BaculaLNF"
++--+-+--+---+--+-+---+
| jobid | name | starttime | type | level |
jobfiles | jobbytes| jobstatus |
++--+-+--+---+--+-+---+
| 16,614 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1| 2024-02-01 08:40:46 | B| I |
0 | 0 | A |
| 16,660 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1| 2024-02-02 16:01:11 | B| I |
0 | 0 | A |
| 16,767 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1| 2024-02-05 08:00:02 | B| F |
0 | 0 | A |
| 16,807 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1| 2024-02-06 08:35:16 | B| I |
0 | 0 | A |
| 16,847 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1| 2024-02-07 14:06:41 | B| I |
0 | 0 | A |
| 16,887 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1| 2024-02-08 16:01:15 | B| I |
0 | 0 | A |
| 16,927 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1| 2024-02-09 15:22:07 | B| I |
0 | 0 | A |
| 17,033 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1| 2024-02-12 16:01:13 | B| F |
0 | 0 | A |
| 17,073 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1| 2024-02-13 13:46:29 | B| I |
0 | 0 | A |
| 17,430 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1| 2024-02-22 11:14:40 | B| F |
0 | 0 | A |
| 17,435 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1| 2024-02-22 11:17:53 | B| F |
0 | 0 | A |
| 17,436 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1| 2024-02-22 11:31:27 | B| F |
0 | 0 | A |
| 17,434 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1| 2024-02-22 11:32:21 | B| F |
0 | 0 | A |
| 17,449 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1| 2024-02-22 11:33:38 | B| F |
9 | 154,380,338 | T |
| 17,439 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1| 2024-02-22 11:34:31 | B| I |
2 | 127,566,004 | T |
| 17,440 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1| 2024-02-22 11:39:22 | B| I |
2 | 127,566,004 | T |
| 17,441 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1| 2024-02-22 11:40:30 | B| I |
2 | 127,566,004 | T |
| 17,442 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1| 2024-02-22 11:48:43 | B| I |
2 | 127,566,004 | T |
| 17,443 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1| 2024-02-22 11:58:40 | B| I |
2 | 127,566,004 | T |
| 17,444 | FVG-SV-VWSSV1| 2024-02-22 12:01:24 | B| I |
2 | 127,566,004 | T |
| 17,445 |
