[Bacula-users] Mixing incremental full volume pools (disk based) during restore

2012-03-29 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
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

Re: [Bacula-users] Mixing incremental full volume pools (disk based) during restore

2012-03-29 Thread Craig Van Tassle
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.

Re: [Bacula-users] Mixing incremental full volume pools (disk based) during restore

2012-03-29 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 08:59:05AM -0400, Craig Van Tassle wrote: 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 Hi Craig, thanks much for your

Re: [Bacula-users] Mixing incremental full volume pools (disk based) during restore

2012-03-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/29/2012 09:19 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 08:59:05AM -0400, Craig Van Tassle wrote: 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 =

Re: [Bacula-users] Mixing incremental full volume pools (disk based) during restore

2012-03-29 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:41:40AM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote: I confess I don't see why you'd need to do that. But then, I keep all my disk-based volumes in one place to start with, and have simply never had a problem. Hi Phil, the reasons are mostly historical: I started doing

Re: [Bacula-users] Mixing incremental full volume pools (disk based) during restore

2012-03-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/29/2012 09:59 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:41:40AM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote: I confess I don't see why you'd need to do that. But then, I keep all my disk-based volumes in one place to start with, and have simply never had a problem. Hi Phil, the

Re: [Bacula-users] Mixing incremental full volume pools (disk based) during restore

2012-03-29 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:40:07AM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote: I don't think you should need to do either of those. I have a total of five pools - Full-Disk, Diff-Disk, Incr-Disk, and Full-Tape, plus a scratch pool - but all of my disk volumes are in the same /spool/bacula directory