Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple Catalog Questions/Problems

[Ryan N. <nov...@um...>]

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Ralf Gross wrote:
> Ryan Novosielski schrieb:
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>> Ryan Novosielski wrote:
>>> I would like to use a different Catalog for a certain job. My example is
>>> that I normally back up only data, leaving the operating system to
>>> another type of restore task (JumpStart install, etc). However, there is
>>> a job I do that is a SystemArchive that I do on machines that are about
>>> to get upgraded or similar. Since I keep these tapes forever (or at
>>> least a long time) and they are many more files than normal, I don't
>>> want them clogging up the production catalog. This catalog is growing
>>> and exceeding the size of the media on which it is backed up, which
>>> shouldn't really happen if I'm backing up the same machines all the time.
>>>
>>> It appears to be on a per-client basis though, from my read of the
>>> manual. In the particular case I'm looking at right now, no big deal
>>> (backing up my own laptop, which is never a member of the production
>>> schedule anyhow). In some cases, though, I want to do an archive of a
>>> machine that IS in the rotation. Is the only way, really, to modify the
>>> client spec before this happens, or is there something I'm overlooking?
>> PS: I'm running 2.2.8 on Solaris.
>>
>> Stumbled across this in the archives. It appears as if this is not
>> possible. I also ran into the same problem as the other gentleman
>> attempting this in the archives:
> 
> ;)
>  
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.general/32045
>>
>> Now, I've gone around all of that and I think I'm in the place I need to
>> be. I have two catalogs, bacula, and bacula_archive (I guess that's the
>> obvious name for it!). I have deleted the volume I wish to use from my
>> original catalog and labeled it in the new one. However, when the job
>> runs, I get complaints about there being no available volumes in the
>> pool. It would appear that the job is still using the wrong catalog for
>> some reason. Is there any way to tell why?
> 
> If you use the archive catalog in bconsole and issue a 'list media'
> does it show the volumes you expect and do they have the inchanger
> flag set to 1?

Yes and no. It does show, but is not inchanger. I haven't seen that
matter yet, but I suppose it ought to. FTR, I have no changer, but I
realize this may not mean anything.

> I've had several problems with the 'update slot' command issued while
> I was using the wrong catalog. I can't remember exactly when/why this
> happend, but using different catalogs with bacula is sometimes a bit
> hard (IMHO).

As I have no changer, I don't bother with update slots ever. This is a
freshly labeled tape. I took a look at my other media... seems that some
are set to InChanger and some are not, but an issue has never come up.

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