On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 09:37:35AM -0400, jon pounder wrote: > On 06/28/2011 09:32 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > On 06/28/11 08:40, John Drescher wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Phil Stracchino<ala...@metrocast.net> > >> wrote: > >>> Adding a data limit to a Bacula job really won't do a lot to work around > >>> the unreliability of the link, it'll just make the job terminate early > >>> if you COULD have completed it in one shot. I'm not sure this idea > >>> makes sense. > >>> > >> I think the idea is to terminate early without error. So that the next > >> incremental ... can pickup where the full left off. > > Oh, I totally get that, yes. I just think it's the wrong way to solve > > the problem. It's a Band-Aid approach. > > > > The better way to solve the problem would be to come up with some kind > > of resume-job-from-checkpoint functionality, but that of course would be > > a fairly major project. > > > > > > Doesn't that kind of mess up a backup integrity if both incrementals > don't cover the same time period ? By definition would the second > incremental not have to start over again ?
The way I see it: It would only have to check the timestamps, not send all the actual data again. Most of the files would not have changed since the first incremental. Any that did would get sent again, ensuring backup integrity. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. > Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-devel mailing list > Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
