I am glad my input was helpful... ;0) Cheers, Silas
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Arno Lehmann Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 2:46 PM To: Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure) Cc: Phil Stracchino; Kern Sibbald; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Differentials Jobs referencing obsolete Full Job Hi, On 30.09.2005 22:23, Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure) wrote: > Speaking as a bacula newbie who read the documentation, It did not seem > obvious to me. Having been unfamiliar with bacula I was thinking of running > Full backup jobs and Incremental/Differential backup jobs, not running a > single job that was Full/Differential/Incremental based upon some other > requirements. Something a bit more clear was needed for me to get it. Which is one good reason to think about your suggestion... Phil, some time ago I learn that the typical trouble-shooting instructions in hardware manuals start with "check the power cords and power switch" with a good reason - since then, I know how difficult it is to express something even very simple in a way that leaves room for (almost) no misunderstanding. When Silas didn't notice this - for you and many others - obvious - statement, this might be important. I came to right solution quickly only because I recalled others having made the same mistake, so obviously, it's not clear enough. So, I think that making this section clearer actually _is_ important. > I really don't care whether you apply the patch or not. I just wanted to be > helpful, and offer my newbie perspective while I still have it. That's, of course, a very important point. The problem is that most of the manual was written by people quite familiar with bacula, and that shows. Unfortunately, not being a native English speaker and being quite familiar with bacula by now it's rather difficult for me to improve the manual. > ;0) I hope you don't take Phils's remark personal - after all, at least he thinks about your suggestion ;-) Arno > -----Original Message----- > From: Phil Stracchino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 1:02 PM > To: Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure) > Cc: Kern Sibbald; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net; Arno Lehmann > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Differentials Jobs referencing obsolete Full > Job > > > >>Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure) wrote: >> >>>Here is a diff against >>>http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html >>> >>>565c565,569 >>>< performed as requested. >>>--- >>> >>> >>>>performed as requested. >>>><STRONG>Note: Since the director looks for a previous >>>>full backup with the same job name of your incrimental, you cannot do >>>>incrementals against full backups with a different job name. Even if the >>>>Client and Filesets are the same for both jobs.</STRONG> >>> >>>626c630,634 >>>< performed as requested. >>>--- >>> >>> >>>>performed as requested. >>>><STRONG>Note: Since the director looks for a previous >>>>full backup with the same job name of your differential, you cannot do >>>>differentials against full backups with a different job name. Even if the >>>>Client and Filesets are the same for both jobs.</STRONG> >> >>You know, when I look at this, since the *very first* requirement >>specified in the existing manual is that the reference job must have the >>same job name, it seems perfectly clear to me. I really don't see how >>it can be misunderstood. >> >> >>-- >>Phil Stracchino [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Renaissance Man, Unix generalist, Perl hacker >>Mobile: 603-216-7037 Landline: 603-886-3518 >> > > -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
