-----Original Message----- From: Phil Stracchino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 1:31 PM To: Arno Lehmann Cc: Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure); bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Differentials Jobs referencing obsolete Full Job
>Arno Lehmann wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'll put my answer to Phil's post here... it just fits better. >> >> Phil, if he scenario you describe really can happen I think it would be >> time to consider the time stamp stored in the FileSet when looking for >> previous backups. sqlquery follows: > >I don't know whether I can or not; I haven't looked at the code to see. >And at the moment I don't know that I could tell anything anyway. > >> Ha! Is it possible that your Full and Differential backups are actually >> _two_ jobs, instead of one job with different levels in the schedule? >> I've seen this from some people, and it might be that the manual doesn't >> state it clear enough, but you must define one job and set the backup >> level either manually when running that job, or override it in the >> schedule. >> >> Bacula won't base a differential backup on a full one defined in another >> job resource, even if they have client, fileset, and all other stuff in >> common. > BINGO!!! That is it exactly. The documentation was not clear at all on this. Thank you very much, I would have never been able to figure that out from the docs. Is there someplace to issue a bug report against the documentation? -Silas >This possibility hadn't occurred to me. Good thinking. > > > >-- > Phil Stracchino [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Renaissance Man, Unix generalist, Perl hacker > Mobile: 603-216-7037 Landline: 603-886-3518 > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
