On Wednesday 03 August 2005 00:20, Arno Lehmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > From time to time, I've heard some complaints about the way Bacula
> > selects pools, but it has never been specific enough for me to do
> > something. Now, I have an example where I have defined an Incremental
> > Pool, and in using the "run" command, even though the job is an
> > Incremental job, the pool show is the Full Pool.
>
> Well, that is what makes adding new hosts and using existing schedules fun.
>
> > In looking at the code, I see the following:
> >
> > 1. When (if) a job is scheduled, the Run pool overrides are applied to
> > the pool.
> >
> > 2. If you manually run a job, it starts here.
> >
> > 3. When the backup is initialized, the Job pool specifications are
> > applied, if any.
> >
> > 4. If the backup is Diff or Inc, and no Full backup is found in the
> > catalog, the job is upgraded to Full.
> >
> > Now, I haven't looked at this in detail, but it seems to me that at least
> > in 1.37, the Job pool specifications are not working as I intended, since
> > step 4 should logically be done before step 3.
>
> Definitely right, and this was discussed on the userlist, but obviously
> nobody considered this a bug but rather a peculiarity :-)
>
> > Also, I haven't checked the documentation, but it should clearly indicate
> > that Job Pool specifications (other than the Pool = ) override any run
> > overrides.
>
> I'm still not sure with this, though.
> I think whatever you give on the command line should override everything
> else, and I think you want something else. Which, naturally, is not
> automatically wrong ;-) but I'd like to have the possibility to manually
> influence everything.
Yes, of course. This should have been included in my paragraph above.
>
> Arno
>
> > Comments would be appreciated as I would like to fix this problem.
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Best regards,
Kern
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