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Hello,

Due to speed requirement I use both two drives of my PV132T to run full
weekly backups.
However, I made daily incremental backups too, on monday to tuesday and
now two tapes are required (due to the use of both drives).
Is there anyway to limite incremental backups to one drive ?

Thanks in advance,
Best regards, Adam.

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152 rue de Grigy tél: +33 3 87 50 87 95
Technopôle Metz 2000 fax: +33 3 87 75 19 26
57070 METZ - France http://www.linbox.com

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Adam Cécile wrote:
Hello,

Due to speed requirement I use both two drives of my PV132T to run full
weekly backups.
However, I made daily incremental backups too, on monday to tuesday and
now two tapes are required (due to the use of both drives).
Is there anyway to limite incremental backups to one drive ?

Thanks in advance,
Best regards, Adam.


If you are using a schedule for your incremental backups, and assuming
you have 2 storage resources listed in your director config (one for
each drive), you could add a Storage override directive to the
incremental schedule to use only one of those 2 drives.

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Michael Proto a écrit :
Adam Cécile wrote:
Hello,

Due to speed requirement I use both two drives of my PV132T to run full
weekly backups.
However, I made daily incremental backups too, on monday to tuesday and
now two tapes are required (due to the use of both drives).
Is there anyway to limite incremental backups to one drive ?

Thanks in advance,
Best regards, Adam.


If you are using a schedule for your incremental backups, and assuming
you have 2 storage resources listed in your director config (one for
each drive), you could add a Storage override directive to the
incremental schedule to use only one of those 2 drives.


-Proto
Hi,

The problem is the PV132 is an autochanger with two LOT3 drives.
So I have only one "storage" directive.

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Adam CECILE Linbox / Free&ALter Soft
152 rue de Grigy tél: +33 3 87 50 87 95
Technopôle Metz 2000 fax: +33 3 87 75 19 26
57070 METZ - France http://www.linbox.com

Adam Cécile a écrit :
Michael Proto a écrit :

Adam Cécile wrote:

Hello,

Due to speed requirement I use both two drives of my PV132T to run full
weekly backups.
However, I made daily incremental backups too, on monday to tuesday and
now two tapes are required (due to the use of both drives).
Is there anyway to limite incremental backups to one drive ?

Thanks in advance,
Best regards, Adam.

If you are using a schedule for your incremental backups, and assuming
you have 2 storage resources listed in your director config (one for
each drive), you could add a Storage override directive to the
incremental schedule to use only one of those 2 drives.


-Proto

Hi,

The problem is the PV132 is an autochanger with two LOT3 drives.
So I have only one "storage" directive.

Hi,

I still don't know how can I do what I explained above, any pointers ?

Best regards, Adam.

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Adam CECILE Linbox / Free&ALter Soft
152 rue de Grigy tél: +33 3 87 50 87 95
Technopôle Metz 2000 fax: +33 3 87 75 19 26
57070 METZ - France http://www.linbox.com

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Adam C=E9cile wrote:

The problem is the PV132 is an autochanger with two LOT3 drives.
So I have only one "storage" directive.


I still don't know how can I do what I explained above, any pointers ?

Add individual drive definitions as storage items in bacula-dir and then=20
explicitly use those drives for the desired jobs.

Here's how mine is setup:

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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
Bacula-sd:
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# An autochanger device with two drives
#
Autochanger {
Name =3D MSL6000-changer
Device =3D MSL6000-0
Device =3D MSL6000-1
Changer Device =3D /dev/sg6
Changer Command =3D "/etc/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d"
}
Device {
Name =3D MSL6000-0 #
Drive Index =3D 0
Media Type =3D LTO-2
AutoChanger =3D yes;
Changer Device =3D /dev/sg6
Archive Device =3D /dev/nst0
AutomaticMount =3D yes; # when device opened, read it
AlwaysOpen =3D yes;
LabelMedia =3D yes; # lets Bacula label unlabeled medi=
a
Removable Media =3D yes;
RandomAccess =3D no;
Volume Poll Interval =3D 7200
Alert Command =3D "/bin/sh -c '/usr/sbin/tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|=
cat'"
Spool Directory =3D /var/bacula/spool/MSL6000-0
Maximum Network Buffer Size =3D 65536
Maximum Spool Size =3D 400000000000 # 400Gb
Maximum Job Spool Size =3D 40000000000 # 40Gb
}
Device {
Name =3D MSL6000-1 #
Drive Index =3D 1
Device Type =3D Tape
Media Type =3D LTO-2
AutoChanger =3D yes;
Changer Device =3D /dev/sg6
Archive Device =3D /dev/nst1
AutomaticMount =3D yes; # when device opened, read it
AlwaysOpen =3D yes;
LabelMedia =3D yes; # lets Bacula label unlabeled medi=
a
RemovableMedia =3D yes;
RandomAccess =3D no;
Volume Poll Interval =3D 7200
Alert Command =3D "/bin/sh -c '/usr/sbin/tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|=
cat'"
Spool Directory =3D /var/bacula/spool/MSL6000-1
Maximum Network Buffer Size =3D 65536
Maximum Spool Size =3D 400000000000 # 400Gb
Maximum Job Spool Size =3D 40000000000 # 40Gb
}
=2E..

=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
Bacula-dir

# Definition of LTO-2 tape storage autochanger
Storage {
Name =3D MSL6000-changer
Autochanger =3D yes
Address =3D XXXXXX
SDPort =3D 9103
Password =3D "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
Device =3D MSL6000-changer # must be same as Device in Storage daemon
Media Type =3D LTO-2 # must be same as MediaType in Storage daem=
on
Maximum Concurrent Jobs =3D 20
}
## Definition of LTO-2 tape storage in autochanger
Storage {
Name =3D MSL6000-0
Autochanger =3D yes
Address =3D XXXXX # N.B. Use a fully qualified name here
SDPort =3D 9103
Password =3D "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
Device =3D MSL6000-0 # must be same as Device in Storage daemon
Media Type =3D LTO-2 # must be same as MediaType in Storage daemon
Maximum Concurrent Jobs =3D 10
}
# Definition of LTO-2 tape storage in autochanger
Storage {
Name =3D MSL6000-1
Autochanger =3D yes
Address =3D XXXXX # N.B. Use a fully qualified name here
SDPort =3D 9103
Password =3D "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
Device =3D MSL6000-1 # must be same as Device in Storage daemon
Media Type =3D LTO-2 # must be same as MediaType in Storage daemon
Maximum Concurrent Jobs =3D 10
}
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D

Additional to what Alan already suggested...

It would help if you tld us which version of Bacula you run and how your =

device and jobs are set up now.

Anyway, I guess adding 'prefer mounted volume=3Dno' to the schedules migh=
t=20
be worth a try.

I haven't investigated if that is possible, though.

Arno

On 3/13/2007 5:36 PM, Adam C=E9cile wrote:
Hello,
=20
Due to speed requirement I use both two drives of my PV132T to run full=

weekly backups.
However, I made daily incremental backups too, on monday to tuesday and=

now two tapes are required (due to the use of both drives).
Is there anyway to limite incremental backups to one drive ?
=20
Thanks in advance,
Best regards, Adam.
=20

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IT-Service Lehmann al < at > it...
Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de

Alan solution works fine.
I had to wait last night to confirm everything works fine and it does!

Thanks a lot for all your help, this mailling list is really usefull.

Arno Lehmann a écrit :
Additional to what Alan already suggested...

It would help if you tld us which version of Bacula you run and how
your device and jobs are set up now.

Anyway, I guess adding 'prefer mounted volume=no' to the schedules
might be worth a try.

I haven't investigated if that is possible, though.

Arno

On 3/13/2007 5:36 PM, Adam Cécile wrote:
Hello,

Due to speed requirement I use both two drives of my PV132T to run full
weekly backups.
However, I made daily incremental backups too, on monday to tuesday and
now two tapes are required (due to the use of both drives).
Is there anyway to limite incremental backups to one drive ?

Thanks in advance,
Best regards, Adam.



--
Adam CECILE Linbox / Free&ALter Soft
152 rue de Grigy tél: +33 3 87 50 87 95
Technopôle Metz 2000 fax: +33 3 87 75 19 26
57070 METZ - France http://www.linbox.com