Pools

[ofladung]

Hi all,

I have an odd problem with my pools. I use three for the daily, the weekly and the bootstrap/CFI backup, and it work fine. Let me describe the configuration:

The daily and the weekly groups are members of the pool "Bootstrap". This pool contains the savesets "index" and "bootstrap".

The daily and the weekly groups are also members of their own pools (no savesets for this pools).

Yesterday I changed it a little bit because I want to store the bootstrap and the CFI on the weekly tapes over the weekend. I've done the following:

I removed the weekly groups from the bootstrap pool and added the savesets "index" and "bootstrap" to the weekly pool. If I start the weekly group the Networker ask for a writable tape from the default pool. I have no idea why, because no group is a member of this pool.

Regards,
Oliver

 

[605]

If no other pool fits, NW will try to proceed writing to "Default". This is what you see here.

I assume you just want index and bootstrap save sets in general going to the "bootstrap" pool. Nothing is easier than that - just remove all groups from the pool "bootstrap". only specify the savesets.

For the groups "daily" and "weekly", just do not specify any save set at all.

 

[ofladung]

I would like to do the backups that way:


Daily backup (work week)

bootstrap (full), CFI (incr.), files (incr.). Files will be stored on the daily tapes, bootstrap and CFI on the bootstrap tapes. I keep the daily tapes for a month and use them again after this period. I keep the bootstrap tapes if they're full.

Weekly backup (weekend)

bootstrap (full), CFI (full), files (full). Files , bootstrap and CFI will be stored on the weekly tapes. I clone the set and send it to another location.

 

[605]

Besides the fact that there is no incremental CFI backup (NW will run a level 9 backup instead), you need 3 pools
setup the following way:

For the daily backups:

Pool bootstrap daily
Groups daily_backup daily_backup
Clients
Save Sets bootstrap
index
Levels


For the weekly backups:

Pool weekly
Groups weekly_backup
Clients
Save Sets
Levels

This should already do the trick.