On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:46:44AM -0400, John Lockard wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:11:28PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
> > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 02:12:13PM -0400, John Lockard wrote:
> > > When you run a job by hand the schedule isn't involved.
> > > Either way, for your "Schedule" entry you need "Level="
> > > before the work "Full".
> > >
> > > Schedule {
> > > Name = "test"
> > > Run = Level=Full at 11:50
> > > }
> >
> > Thank John for pointing out this, I searched the documentation and it
> > should be like what you said. But I wonder why bacula does not give me
> > an error or warning when I did not get the config correct.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > But, your problem is that your Job doesn't have a Default
> > > Level defined. You'll need something like this:
> > >
> > > Job {
> > > Name = "job_backup1"
> > > Type = Backup
> > > Level = Full
> > > .
> > > .
> > > }
> >
> > I don't understand the point of a default backup level. Since after all
> > I will set the levels explicitly in the schedule resources. Is there
> > some exceptional case when a default bacckup level is useful?
>
> The point of the default backup level is for when you need to
> run a job by hand from the console.
>
> If you don't run anything other than Fulls (for example), you
> can just define the backup level in one place. If you run
> multiple levels, you set those in the schedule, but you set
> the default level in the Job, so that on the occasion you need
> to run a job manually, it will select a certain level of job.
>
> In your case, it sounds like you are most interested in
> running incremental jobs by hand, so setting the default
> level to "Incremental" makes the most sense. In my case,
> I'm generally not as worried about Incremental jobs as I am
> about the failure of a Full, so my default level is "Full".
Thanks John, it makes sense to me.
Regards,
--
Zhengquan
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