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On 7/5/2010 12:26 PM, Graham Keeling wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 11:58:31AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
>> On 7/5/2010 11:37 AM, Graham Keeling wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I have a schedule like this in my bacula-dir.conf:
>>>
>>> Schedule {
>>> Name = "ScheduleX"
>>> Run = Level=Incremental mon at 18:00
>>> Run = Level=Incremental tue at 18:00
>>> Run = Level=Incremental wed at 18:00
>>> Run = Level=Incremental thu at 18:00
>>> Run = Level=Incremental fri at 18:00
>>> Run = Level=Incremental sat at 18:00
>>> Run = Level=Incremental sun at 18:00
>>> Run = Level=VirtualFull 1st sun at 21:00
>>> }
>>
>> FYI: with this schedule you'll get both a VirtualFull and an Incremental
>> on the 1st Sun. Just saying... To avoid that, you could do this:
>>
>> Run = Level=Incremental 2nd-5th sun at 18:00
>
> If I did that, I would risk losing data because I wouldn't be doing any real
> backup on the 1st Sunday.
ahh yes.
Why are you worried about not rescheduling inc?
>>> And a Job that looks like this:
>>>
>>> Job {
>>> Name = "JobX"
>>> Type = Backup
>>> Schedule = "ScheduleX"
>>> Pool = "JobXPool"
>>> Priority = 10
>>> Client = "ClientX-fd"
>>> FileSet = "FileSetX"
>>> Full Backup Pool = "FullPoolX"
>>> Incremental Backup Pool = "IncrPoolX"
>>> Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1
>>> Storage = "StorageX"
>>> Accurate = "yes"
>>> }
>>>
>>> I want to make sure that I get a VirtualFull every month, so I think I want
>>> to 'Reschedule' it if it gets an error.
>>> But I don't want to 'Reschedule' any Incrementals.
>>>
>>> Is this possible?
>>
>> The only way I can think of is to have one job for Inc and another for
>> the Full.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
> I am a bit dubious as to whether it can really work like that.
>
> If I came to do a restore (or the virtualfull), bacula would have to know to
> group the source data, perhaps by client/fileset, rather than by job name.
> Perhaps I just need to try it.
>
>
> A second question:
> What can I do in the case where there is a power cut on the first sunday? I
> don't think that bacula is going to notice that a virtualfull has been missed.
No, it will not. Pretty sure it wont. That's up to you I think.
--
Dan Langille - http://langille.org/
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