Hello, I'm using a schedule with weekly full backups (Fri->Sat) and daily incremental backups (Mon-Thu) with three volume pools DAY-TAPES,WEEK-TAPES,MONTH-TAPES. The tapes are labeled corresponding to the day/week they are used - so DAY-1 for Monday, WEEK-1 for the first weekend of the month etc. On the last weekend of the month, the corresponding MONTH tape is used for the monthly full backup (e.g. MONTH-JanJul, etc.).
The problem is, the customer does not want to invest into an auto-changer, so tapes are changed manually from monday to friday. This all works fine, until a backup cannot be exercised because no one inserted a tape for that day - which unfortunately happens on a semi-regular basis. What I did until now, is simply cancel the backup jobs for that day. However, this often led to problems with automatic recycling, like in the following scenario: Week 1: Tape "WEEK-1" required, but not inserted -> jobs cancelled Week 2: Tape "WEEK-2" planed for backup, but even though it has been inserted, it's not recycled by Bacula as "WEEK-1" has not been used the week before I often manually recycled tapes (purge jobs, update status) to get the backups to run, but that led to even more problems (volume retention not applied correctly, as FirstWritten value of manually recycled tapes is not reset). What's the correct way to handle this? I thought about just scrapping the current scheme and instruct the customer to just insert the next available tape (e.g. WEEK-1 hasn't been used because not inserted -> WEEK-1 will be inserted next week.) but I fear this might cause too much confusion (as mentioned the tape operator is not all that reliable). Any advice is much appreciated! Kind regards, Rainhard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
