Re: [Bacula-users] Best backup strategy to use the minimum size

2009-10-17 Thread Jose Perez
Hi: Here's one possibility: Pool {  Name = Full  ...  Volume Use Duration = 23 hours  Volume Retention = 89 days } Pool {  Name = Differential  ...  Volume Use Duration = 23 hours  Volume Retention = 89 days } Pool {  Name = Incremental  ...  Volume Use Duration = 23 hours  

Re: [Bacula-users] sorting output bconsole

2009-10-16 Thread Jose Perez
Hi: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Terry L. Inzauro tinza...@ha-solutions.net wrote: Does bconsole support sorting of output?   For instance, can bconsole sort the output of list volumes pool=FullPool by size or date? I don't think this is possible but you could some bash script to sort:

[Bacula-users] Best backup strategy to use the minimum size

2009-10-16 Thread Jose Perez
Hi people: I'm trying to find the best combination of Full, Differential and Incremental backups to save disk space, I'd like someone can help me with some ideas: Our policy says that we must keep user data of last 3 months, so according to that I planned to do something like this: Client {

[Bacula-users] When is my Volume will be recycled?

2009-10-15 Thread Jose Perez
Hi people: I'm a little confused about how bacula deals with Pools and Volumes. I'm using Automatic labeling with a Pool that uses a unique Volume (as file disk) that is continuosly increasing its size. I have a unique volume named Vol-0001 with a size of 900 GB and status Append. If I pretend

Re: [Bacula-users] When is my Volume will be recycled?

2009-10-15 Thread Jose Perez
Bacula's retention times for volumes are based on the date the volume was last written.  So, every time Bacula writes a backup job to a volume, your 15-day retention clock starts over from zero.  As long as your volume's status is Append, bacula will keep writing to it. That's the kind of

Re: [Bacula-users] When is my Volume will be recycled?

2009-10-15 Thread Jose Perez
Hi: If you did not set any condition to limit the disk volume size or usage the volume will grow till it exhausts your storage then the volume retention period of 15 days kicks in. That's exactly what is going to happen soon If I don't solve this now. See the first part of the following

[Bacula-users] Suggestions of backups

2009-10-02 Thread Jose Perez
Hi people: I'd like to get some suggestions from you about the best way to deal with my backups managed with Bacula: I'm running Bacula 3.0.2 with a unique Volume as a file disk, all backups are stored under some directory in a huge file (now is about 400 GB of size). I have this configuration

[Bacula-users] Run a script for a restore job from bconsole

2009-09-29 Thread Jose Perez
Hi people: I'm running Bacula 3.0.2 and I have a Restore Job like this: Job {   Name = RestoreFiles   Type = Restore   Client = srv-bacula   FileSet = srv-bacula   Storage = FileDrive   Where = /var/data/samba/backups   Messages = Standard   Pool = Default   Run After Job =

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore only the contents of the last job

2009-09-17 Thread Jose Perez
Thanks anyway to everybody. I just found the not using the 'select' option at the restore command did the trick. However it would be nice that this 'select' option be more documented that just use the tree selection method. Bye :) On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Jose Perez jvoorhe...@gmail.com

[Bacula-users] Reports of saved files after a backup job

2009-09-16 Thread Jose Perez
Hi people: Is it possible to send an email to some user containing the list of all files saved on a backup? The Messages resource only mentions notsaved files. Could someone point me to a possible solution for this? Thanks

[Bacula-users] Restore only the contents of the last job

2009-09-16 Thread Jose Perez
Hi all: I'm running Bacula 3.0.2 with a policy of 1 Full Backup per month and the rest of days Incremental backups. I'm pretending to offer some kind of archive acces to my end users like this: 1. Trough Samba publish the contents of user backups 2. Create a directory named with the current date