Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:45:43PM +0100, Alan Brown wrote: > >> IE: double the network load. >> >> In order to achieve bit-identical backups, one would need to snapshot the >> filesystem before starting the backups and release the snapshot afterwards >> (Assuming LVM or other snapshot-capable setup) >> >> > > Hello Alan et al., > > I'm not really interested in bit-by-bit identical backups, I just want > one full backup per month / host to go onto the tape library to "take > away" and store the media in a different location, so a couple of > different files within the tape backup would be no biggie. > > One final question, though: Right now, bacula does a full backup once > a week and incremental backups during the rest of the week. However I > only want the full backup to end up on tape. Is there a way to > restrict cloned backups to level "full" only, ignoring the incremental > level backups? > > As I understand it from the documentation, the "level" keyword in the > job's "run" statement would force a certain backup level for the > cloned job if I'm not mistaken? > > All the best & thanks again everyone for your help & comments, > > Uwe > > Yes it is possible to be done and this is the way I use it. You need to create different job and schedule it to do only full backups
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