Re: create new volume on a particular day

Hi

Thanks for the reply, appreciate the points u made

On 2024-08-29 09:09, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote:
>
>
>     As the subject says, I was wondering if it is possible to make the
>     creation of a new volume conditional on a  bckup job running on a
>     particular weekday, or the job being a particular category i.e Full
>     backup.
>
>
> Sure, no problem. Create a dedicated pool and setup a volume to 
> "close"after a first job (status Used, Use Volume Once = yes) which 
> ensures the next full backup will get a new, fresh volume.
I will try it, thanks for the suggestion
>
>     meaning if job is a full backup or running on sunday, make a new
>     vol and label it and have the jobs running on weekdays write to
>     same vol
>
>
>     Background is that i would like to have the the full backup(usualy
>     running on a sunday), and the following diff. backup on weekdays
>     in one
>     and same volume(just trying to have it neat for archiving)
>
>
> Let the Bacula manage your volumes. Do not try to manage it yourself. 
> Bacula is the advanced backup application.
> Bacula has a perfect feature for your archiving - Copy Jobs. Please 
> use it instead of manual volume management.
>
>     and ofcourse
>     preferably have a time stamp in the Vol- name.
>
>
> Why? Bacula already writes a volume timestamp and job timestamps 
> inside a volume itself. It is already there, no need to write it 
> manually again.
>
The reason i want to do it is to be able the tell the time span of a 
backup file(when looking on the physical file on the disk) just by 
looking at the name. i.e one file with a particular time stamp spans the 
whole coming week. I think it will provide the other guys in the IT a 
better grip on the backup files

>     But i think i read it
>     some where that vol name expansion is possible, just have to find the
>     particular section in manual
>
>
> What do you mean? You can name your volume with any prefix you like: 
> Label Format = <format> 
> https://www.bacula.org/15.0.x-manuals/en/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION00231600000000000000000 
> <https://www.bacula.org/15.0.x-manuals/en/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION00231600000000000000000>
> Then Bacula append a counter for volume name uniquness, which is 
> required. -> "media_volumename_id" UNIQUE, btree (volumename)

yes, but instead of naming the backup files with names like Volume-001, 
volume-002 ... etc etc, I would like to have names like 
SrvName-2004-08-27, i got the date stamping to work and am still working 
on it to find a good naming convention, i do realize that this is a 
matter of personal taste though, Bacula does not care  :)

Thanks for the link btw, the documentation is realy quite large, i had 
not come to this section yet, cool stuff

> best regards
> -- 
> Radosław Korzeniewski
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
-- 

Sincerely /Mehrdad
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Mehrdad Ravanbod                                         System 
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