Hi, 18.09.2007 10:36,, Eric Böse-Wolf wrote:: > "Hydro Meteor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Martin, >> >> Thank you for checking my logic. I wonder if it would be worthwhile to the >> Bacula community to have some simple diagrams that accompany the User's >> Guide, >> such a diagram that shows a timeline and how Bacula Jobs operate along such a >> timeline? I'd be pleased contribute some graphics to the documentation if >> that's something other people would also be interested in.
Personally, I don't see the need for this - the underlying logic is quite clear to me - but of course it might help you and others. > I would really appreciated it. > > I noticed: If I have two Jobs, both on the same Client with the same > FileSet but with different schedules, Bacula will make two Full Backups > as the individual job has never had a Full Backup before, even if the > other job did a Full backup a few days ago. Maybe thats something, that > could be mentioned, too. That's just what a job is for - a job is an independent entity and never refers to data from other jobs. I don't know if the manual is very clear on this, but again, I never had problems understanding this. But you are right - from time to time, people don't understand this, set up one job for full, one for differential, and one for incremental backups and wonder why it does not work as expected. Some introduction to the concepts of jobs in relation to client, fileset and schedule definition would probably be a good addition to the manual. The basic idea would be to point out that filesets, schedules and even client definitions can be used in many jobs, but that each job is independent from any other jobs and thus holds its own, complete set of backed up data, even though that data can overlap with the data from other jobs. Now someone needs to write that up in a two-page text that clearly describes this to novice users :-) Arno -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
