Good evening,
I am looking at Bareos as it seems to be the only option that explicitly
mentions the use of LTO for incremental backups, so I can keep appending to
existing tapes with each backup. Is this indeed how Bareos will work?
I am using LTO-5 tapes which have some age and use to them, an
As far as I remember unless you explicitly specify volume size (which
can be useful if you're using file-based volumes, bareos will write to
the volume until it reaches the end. Then it will request another volume.
Unless you hit an error - then I think the volume status will be set to
error.
Hi there, thanks for the response,
In the case that a volume fails whilst adding it, is it possible to retry a
backup with a new volume?
On Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at 9:24:38 PM UTC Spadajspadaj wrote:
> As far as I remember unless you explicitly specify volume size (which can
> be useful
If the writing fails the backup job will end with either failed status or
"with errors". I'm not sure but I'd expect the former.
You can of course always re-run any job manually but I don't recall any
mechanics like "if the job failed, re-try it immediately with another
volume". You could try to sc
You certainly will get more gain to spend a bit of time in the
documentation, than trying to play with scripting :-)
Bareos has parameter to most (if not all) possible
case
https://docs.bareos.org/bareos-23/Configuration/Director.html#config-Dir_Job_RescheduleOnError
;-)
Alexander, if a tap
Ha!
Another set of eyes is always useful.
Thanks for correcting my (false, this time) assumptions!
MK
On 21.12.2023 10:41, Bruno Friedmann (bruno-at-bareos) wrote:
You certainly will get more gain to spend a bit of time in the
documentation, than trying to play with scripting :-)
Bareos has
Thanks MK, Bruno,
"Checkpoints also happen on volume changes. This means that when a volume
is full, or the backup has to switch to writing to another volume for some
other reason, a checkpoint is triggered saving what has been written to
that volume."
This sounds like what I want to achieve,
As said previously, if the volume is defective, the job try to use another
one. But in some cases the drive can be defective, become unresponsive or
whatever and the job finish with a job status error.
btw Bareos knows where it was on tape ;-)
Le jeudi 21 décembre 2023 à 13:56:12 UTC+1, Alexand
