>>>>> On Thu, 17 May 2007 17:26:39 -0500, Nick Jones said: > > Hello everyone. > > I am interested in creating a disk to disk daily backup (at least > daily) that will backup up all files that were modified after a > certain date. > > I realize this is possible with a differential backup but what I DONT > want is a full backup. I just want the subset of files that have been > modified since running job X. > > Perhaps (hopefully) I am wrong, but the documentation states that for > differential backups it is required that the job be the same job, > meaning that it is required that a full backup be made.
No, you are right -- it must be the same job with different levels. > I was wondering if there is another way to do this. Perhaps by using > the catalog from a full backup performed on date X. > > If anyone has any suggestions or tricks for this please let me know. > I apologize if I missed this in the documentation or if the answer is > trivial. BTW this is done so that I can lose the RAID volume, restore > from 2 week old tape to the new RAID, and then update the files with > the daily disk backup from the other backup RAID. Have you tried the Storage Job-override option? That would allow the differential backup to be stored in a disk volume even though the full backup is on tape. __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users