On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 08:44:47AM +0000, Graham Keeling wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:32:16AM +0100, Alex Huth wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > We have a timetable for the backups, where we do fullbackups on the 1st
> > sunday, differentials on the other sundays and incremental on each other
> > day.
> >
> > on 07.11 (1st Sunday) bacula did a fullbackup like expected. Next monday
> > a incremental like expected. On the following tuesday bacula made
> > a fullbackup instead of the incremental, because he didn´t find a prior
> > fullbackup in the catalog.
> >
> > The fullbackup on the 7th was the second fullback. The first one was the
> > initial fullbackup after the setup and start with bacula.
> >
> > Where do i have to search for the problem?
>
> Bacula relies heavily on your clock being correct.
> If your clock went backwards since it did the first full, it won't be able to
> find the first full.
>
> Also, if your retention for your first full has expired, it will purge it
> even though another backup depends on it existing.
> So perhaps your retention for your first full was too low.
>
This is the part of the config. For me it looks ok, or? The plan was to
have three sets of fullbackups.
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#Default pool definition
Pool {
Name = Default
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 365 days
}
Pool {
Name = Full-Pool
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
File Retention = 3 months
Volume Retention = 3 months
Maximum Volume jobs = 40
Label Format = Full-
Maximum Volumes = 4
}
Pool {
Name = Inc-Pool
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
File Retention = 20 days
Volume Retention = 20 days
Maximum Volume jobs = 216
Label Format = Inc-
Maximum Volumes = 7
}
Pool {
Name = Diff-Pool
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
File Retention = 40 days
Volume Retention = 40 days
Maximum Volume jobs = 36
Label Format = Diff-
Maximum Volumes = 10
}
# Scratch pool definition
Pool {
Name = Scratch
Pool Type = Backup
}
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Alex Huth
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