Kevin Keane writes: >How is your concurrency configured? If you only have one concurrent job, the a >ctual dates you have in your schedule aren't related to reality in the first p >lace. If that is your configuration, your backups aren't going to run on Satur >day anyway, but on Sunday or whenever the full backups are finished. That mean >s that the exact time you schedule the differentials doesn't matter. Just sche >dule them to start five minutes after the fulls (at 22:10), and with a lower p >riority.
I think you missed the point of my question. That's probably my fault, for being too verbose. But my question was, how do I * schedule a full backup on a specific Friday * schedule differential backups on Saturdays * * but not the day immediately after a full backup ? >-----Original Message----- >From: hymie! [mailto:hy...@lactose.homelinux.net] >Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 9:43 AM >To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [Bacula-users] friday vs saturday > > >So I have four machines whose full backups take more than 24 hours. >As an additional problem, one of those 4 machines takes 12 hours just to do an > Incremental/Differential backup. (The full backup takes 43 >hours.) > >I had the idea that I would assign each machine its own Friday to do a full ba >ckup, where no other backups would take place. Then on Saturday, each of the >machines that didn't just do a full backup would do a Differential backup. Fi >nally, incrementals the rest of the week. > >I was just about to set up schedules for these boxes that look something like >this: > >Schedule { > Name = "1stFridayFull" > Run = Full 1st fri at 22:05 > Run = Differential 2nd-5th sat at 22:05 > Run = Incremental sun-thu at 22:05 >} >Schedule { > Name = "2ndFridayFull" > Run = Full 2nd fri at 22:05 > Run = Differential 1st sat at 22:05 > Run = Differential 3nd-5th sat at 22:05 > Run = Incremental sun-thu at 22:05 >} > >But then I realized -- sometimes, the day after the 1st Friday is the 2nd Satu >rday. > >(caution: monospaced font ahead) > October 2011 >Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa > 1 > 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 > 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 >16 17 18 19 20 21 22 >23 24 25 26 27 28 29 >30 31 > >So it seems that, on Fri 7 October, my 1stFriFull machine will do a full backu >p; on Sat 8 October, that same machine will do a Differential backup. > >Meanwhile, my 2ndFriFull machine will do a Differential on Sat 1 October, incr >ementals during the week, nothing at all on the 7th or 8th, more incrementals, > before finally doing a Full backup on the 14th... >again followed immediately by a Differential backup on the 15th. > >Is there a way to avoid this problem and accomplish what I want to accomplish? > The only thing that comes to mind is with unusual time math, such as schedul >eing my Differential backups for Friday at 46:05; but I doubt that Bacula supp >orts this. > >--hymie! http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie hy...@lactose.homelinux.net >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
