Timo Neuvonen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a *simple* way how I could force the next scheduled job to be
> upgraded from incremental or differential to level full?
>
> My goal is to manually change a tape at a suitable time (day when either I
> or someone else able to do that happens to be nearby etc, so *not* on any
> exact preset schedule), and I'd like to have the first job on each tape to
> be forced to be a full backup.
>
> Yes, scheduling manually an extra full backup manually is an alternative
> (actually, the only one I know so far), but that would require plenty of
> additional "unnecessary" typing of backup time etc, which obviously have to
> be given in full format (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS... since it could not be run
> immediately). It would sound nicer for an occasional tape-changer-operator
> to give a simple commands without the need of thinking too much:
>
> - release
> - <change the tape physically>
> - mount
> - <upgrade to full>
>
> Basically, I guess this could be possible. Is there any harmless console
> command that would have a side effect of "breaking" the test required for
> making incremental or differential backups?
> According to manual, any (cosmetic) change to filesets would do this, but
> simply eg. reloading the director conf where the filesets are defined (it
> would be a harmlessa simple command) obviously doesn't do it?
>
> I tried to investigate the "run before job" and "run after job" job options.
> Making the latter return non-zero, that job would be marked as failed and
> the next backup obviously would be upgraded. But this would be only the
> second job run onto the new tape. Making "run before job" to fail instead,
> seems to have the actual job not run at all, so it isn't a solution
> either... :-(
The short answer is, I cannot think of any simple and straightforward
way to automate this.
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