Am 21.05.2011 10:57, schrieb Guenter Bartsch: > hi everyone, > > i have a question about bacula job scheduling. I have a pretty simple > schedule for my backup: do a full backup at the beginning at the month > and then incremental ones every day: > > > Schedule { > Name = "DefaultCycle" > Run = Incremental mon-sun at 23:05 > Run = Full 1st sun at 23:05 > } > > now, the problem with this schedule is that full backups often take > several days to complete. during that period if (for various reasons) > no previous full backup is available, new incremental backups get > scheduled and automatically promoted to full backups since no full > backup exists. is there a way to tell bacula not to schedule new jobs > unless the previous job from the same schedule has finished? > > thanks and best regards, > > guenter > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! > Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its > next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran > developers boost performance applications - including clusters. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users Hi,
you could use Priorities. Full Backup Priority = 1 Incremental Priority = 2 Priority 2 will always wait for Priority 1 Jobs to finish. Have a look at the Job Resource. Cheers. Juergen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users