---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Drescher <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 7:03 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] full and incremental backups To: Süleyman Kuran <[email protected]>
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:56 AM, Süleyman Kuran <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi List, > > I am scheduling montly backups to move to an off-site location in case of a > disaster. Monthly backup job copies a full backup 1st friday night of every > month then backups up incremental on the remaining days of month. What I am > trying to achive is to export a tape cartridge 1 st friday of every month > before leaving the office containing the full and incrementals backup ups of > the previous month. The schedule config is as follows : > > > Schedule { > Name = "MultipleRUN" > Run = Level=Full Pool=Daily mon-sun at 3:17 > Run = Level=Full Pool=Weekly sun at 9:05 > Run = Level=Incremental Pool=Weekly mon-sat at 5:05 > Run = Level=Full Pool=Monthly 1st fri at 22:05 > Run = Level=Incremental Pool=Monthly sun-fri at 2:05 > } > > > Now the problem; full and incremental backups are not bound to pools, bacula > just picks up the last full backup to compare, regardless of the pool when > preparing for the incremental. When I remove the cartridge out of the > office, there is a chance that the corresponding full backups are still > located in the library, and my montly backup is useless without a recent > full backup. > > How can i make sure my monthly backup consists of a full backup and > incrementals derived from the full on the same media > I would do a separate job and schedule for the offline set. This way the incrementals will work correctly instead of being based on the daily full backups. John -- John M. Drescher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
