Hi,
On 2/8/2006 6:47 PM, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
Bumping the clock around on the machine seems reasonable, but ugly.
File system activity can also be scripted outside of the system.
Somehow I don't understand what file system activity has to do with the
schedules...
I guess I need to test more than just the schedule. I need to test the
logic behind Incremental->Full mode promotion code. I need to test the
Prune/Auto-Recycle code/behavior.
Ok, I understand... You wouldn't take our word instead of testing for
yourself? ;-)
Ok, what I'm usually doing is the following:
Set up jobs with a test file set where you can add and delete files to
your liking... cron in conjunction with something like 'dd
if=/dev/urandom bs=16k count=1 of=/tmp/bactest/`date
--iso-8601=minutes`' is a great tool, by the way.
By the way, when testing this sort of stuff, keep in mind that Bacula
uses the unix time stamps to determine which files to store - together
with mv'in files to different directories this can become a problem!
Then, set up your test jobs and pools in a way that automatic pruning
happens after short retention times - that way, you can (still?)
automatically remove jobs Bacula would need for later
incremental/differential backups. You'll easily notice the job
promotions in the job reports.
Anyway, with such a setup and minimal manual intervention you've got
covered the job promotion and the automatic pruning / recycling.
The schedules are quite separate from this part, and you can try to make
them as complicated as you like - I can't give you much advise there
(regarding your original question), because I try to keep schedules
simple :-)
Ok, I admit this doesn't exactly answer your original question, but
perhaps it's helpful...
Arno
~lava
Arno
TIA,
~lava
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