On 07/01/2011 12:23, James Harper wrote: >>> Suggestion: >>> >>> Schedule the day's Incremental, then schedule the VirtualFull, say, > 30 >>> minutes later. >>> >>> Put a RunBeforeJob script on the incremental that creates a lockfile > (in >>> a properly race-safe manner, of course) for the client. >>> >>> Put a RunAfterJob script on the incremental that removes the > lockfile. >>> Put a RunBeforeJob script on the VirtualFull job that checks for >>> presence of the client's lockfile, and, if it finds it still > present, >>> sleeps for five minutes before checking again, and does not return > until >>> the lockfile has been gone for two consecutive checks (thus making >>> certain there is a minimum of five minutes for attribute metadata > from >>> the job to be flushed). >>> >>> >> Brilliant - sounds workable, I just don't know if my bacula skills are >> up to it, I'm still very fresh to it, but the theory of your > suggestion >> is the closest I guess we can come. I will look into in - Thank you >> bacula list :) > I'm not completely sure, but I think that Bacula figures out what media > it is going to use before it calls RunBeforeJob. This would mean that if > you schedule your VirtualFull while your Incremental is running, the > VirtualFull will not include the Incremental backup, no matter how much > you wait inside the VirtualFull's RunBeforeJob script. > > Does anyone know for sure? > > James I'm thinking that a workaround for this would be a script that checks if the previous incremental has finished, and if it hasn't exit the job, and then schedule a new job for $timenow+30mins. And then in 30 mins, it'll check again. That way, no overlap"
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