On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Aaron Knister wrote: > How does bacula handle the relationship between full jobs and > incrementals? In terms of volume retention, does it realize that even > though a tape's recycle flag is set, and it is configured to be > autopruned that a full backup contained on that tape is required for > current incrementals of that job?
If a full backup is purged, all its dependencies (differentials and incrementals) are purged too. If that was the current full backup, the next incremental will immediately be promoted to full. Anyone who doesn't have at least one full backup at all times (including after just having purged a full backup) is doing themselves a great disservice as they are exposing themselves to a window of total data loss until a new full backup has been made - AND put in a safe place. Personally I rely on having 3 full backups on tape, in case at least one set goes bad... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
