Re: Volume names, time stamping and creation

Thanjs for the reponse

That formating mayowrk, i had not tried it, appreciate it

As to vol creation, yes the usage directive is one way, I was hoping 
that there was another way, but i guess not

Regards /Mehrdad

On 2024-08-22 15:57, Martin Simmons wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:15:23 +0200, Mehrdad Ravanbod said:
>> -Bacula documentation states that it is possible to use variables in
>> volume names but i am having no success with it, anyone who has this
>> working and care to share a couple examples from .conf files??
> I'm using a counter variable to make volumes IncrB001, IncrB002 etc like this:
>
> Pool {
>    Name = IncrPool
>    Pool Type = Backup
>    Recycle = yes                       # Bacula can automatically recycle Volumes
>    AutoPrune = yes                     # Prune expired volumes
>    Volume Retention = 100 years	      # forever
>    Maximum Volume Bytes = 1g
>    Label Format = "IncrB${NextIncrB+:p/3/0/r}"
> }
>
> Counter {
>    Name = NextIncrB
>    Minimum = 1
>    Catalog = MyCatalog
> }
>
>> -Is it possible to direct Bacula to create a new volume on a particular
>> week days, say sunday?? Background is that i would to see if it is
>> possible to have a full back and following diff backups during the week
>> in same Volume, i.e one volume for a whole weeks backups
> I think the answer is "not directly", but you can set Volume Use Duration and
> then ensure that you start using the volume on a Sunday.  You would need to
> set the Volume Use Duration to 7 days minus a few hours to allow for timing
> differences.  It is difficult to make this work reliably though, for example
> if the backups fail to run on the Sunday then it would get out of sync.
>
> Another way would be to use a script to set VolStatus = Used for the last
> volume and schedule that to run just before the backups on Sunday (either as a
> cron job or as a Bacula job with Type = Admin).
>
> __Martin
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