Please, post your jobs and jobdefs and schedules.
Have you used Max Full Interval directive?
Kleber
2010/11/10 Graham Keeling <gra...@equiinet.com>
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 08:12:51PM +1100, James Harper wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > Hmmm... it never occurred to me before but mucking around with the clock
> on your director could seriously mess with your day! Advancing the clock by
> one year by mistake would probably purge most peoples catalogues.
>
>
> I've thought about it before, and posted my thoughts on the devel list, on
> a thread called 'bconsole restore bug - option 12', starting here...
> http://marc.info/?l=bacula-devel&m=125302334920002&w=2
> ...and continue to worry about it.
>
> I still think that getting rid of bacula's dependence on clocks, and having
> a 'this job depends on jobid x' field would fix a host of problems.
>
> I can see that maintaining continuity with, or migrating from previous
> bacula
> versions would be difficult. But I think the move would be best in the long
> term.
>
>
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