Copy Job to copy most recent backup of Primary Job regardless of Pool

[Luke Kenny]

I have what I believe a fairly standard configuration, where a host is being backed up by an Incremental job that specifies an Incremental pool, but also separate pools for Full and Differential.  The pool that is actually used is determined by the schedule.

I would like to duplicate this job to S3 storage when it is completed, for off site redundancy.  I have been able to get that up and running with a Copy Job, and that works, except that I am required to specify the Pool the job used, so the Job is limited to just the most recent back from that Pool.

I'm not sure how to get around this.  Am I required to also have 3 separate S3 copy jobs set up?  How can I ensure the correct version of the S3 Copy Job is executed following the primary backup?

Is there a method of having the Copy Job pickup the last backup created by the primary Job, and choose the pool accordingly, as the primary Job does?

Here's a rundown on the config...

Job {
  Name = "Snap-BW"
  FileSet = "BW"
  Messages = "Snap-Messages"
  Type = Backup
  Level = Incremental
  Client = snap-bw-fd
  Schedule = "WeeklyCycle-AM"
  Storage = NAS-Storage
  Messages = Standard
  Pool = Incremental
  Priority = 8
  Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bareos/%c.bsr"
  Full Backup Pool = Full-Pool
  Differential Backup Pool = Differential-Pool
  Incremental Backup Pool = Incremental-Pool
}

Pool {
  Name = Full-Pool
  Pool Type = Backup
  Recycle = yes    
  AutoPrune = yes    
  Volume Retention = 1 month  
  Maximum Volume Bytes = 50G  
  Maximum Volumes = 100        
  Label Format = "Full-Pool-"  
  Next Pool = "S3-Copy-Pool"
}

Pool {
  Name = Differential-Pool
  Pool Type = Backup
  Recycle = yes    
  AutoPrune = yes    
  Volume Retention = 2 weeks  
  Maximum Volume Bytes = 10G  
  Maximum Volumes = 100    
  Label Format = "Diff-Pool-"  
  Next Pool = "S3-Copy-Pool"
}

Pool {
  Name = Incremental-Pool
  Pool Type = Backup
  Recycle = yes          
  AutoPrune = yes    
  Volume Retention = 1 week    
  Maximum Volume Bytes = 1G    
  Maximum Volumes = 100      
  Label Format = "Inc-Pool-"
  Next Pool = "S3-Copy-Pool"
}

Job {
  Name = "s3-copy"
  Type = Copy
  Messages = Standard
  Selection Type = Job
  Selection Pattern = "Snap-BW"
  Pool = Full-Pool
}

Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks for your help!

[Brock Palen]

Are you looking for the job or you looking for “if I did a full restore right now could I get it”?

If you want copies of your jobs you will need to usetup copy jobs for both your pools, bareos will keep track of both and you can see this with

list copies

Note copies interact IMHO poorly with always incremental jobs if you want anything other than the full.
https://docs.bareos.org/TasksAndConcepts/AlwaysIncrementalBackupScheme.html#copy-jobs

What I did to have a off site DR copy and works with always incremental I run a monthly archive job.
https://docs.bareos.org/TasksAndConcepts/AlwaysIncrementalBackupScheme.html#virtual-full-jobs

I found this did waht I wanted yes it is still effecitvly only a single full and not the history, but it’s the full ‘right now’ merging in all the incrementals, this better matched what I wanted, also Consolidate jobs didn’t cause bad behavior (might be betetr now) with the in my case vaulted media. These literally pile up and expire based on my volume/pool settings.

The only thing is if you want to restore from them or add them back to the normal backup consolidaiton you do have to manuall y update the job

update jobid=#### jobtype=B




Brock Palen
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[Bruno Friedmann (bruno-at-bareos)]

You can restore directly from jobtype= A in 24 

just use the jobid (can be done also in webui)

*list jobs client=share-fd
+-------+----------------+----------+---------------------+----------+------+-------+-----------+-----------------+-----------+
| jobid | name           | client   | starttime           | duration | type | level | jobfiles  | jobbytes        | jobstatus |
+-------+----------------+----------+---------------------+----------+------+-------+-----------+-----------------+-----------+

| 20517 | vf_share_month | share-fd | 2025-08-03 01:10:05 | 00:00:49 | A    | F     | 1,450,544 | 674,714,226,950 | T         |
*restore jobid=20517
You have selected the following JobId: 20517

Building directory tree for JobId(s) 20517 ...  ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1,450,544 files inserted into the tree.

[Brock Palen]

That’s great to know!

I used it more to replace fulls that got pruned or had a media failure. I could switch to type=B adn then do a new Consolidate worked great the few times I had to do that.

Brock Palen
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