-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/20/2013 11:34 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 03/18/13 11:17, Melvin Ross wrote: >> As the title says, I want to know if within a JobID, does bacula >> possess any logic verification when selecting which full back up >> to base incremental/differential back ups on or does it simply >> uses the latest one. The reason for this question is due to the >> nature of my schedule/volume configuration which can be seen >> below. As a courtesy, I'll summarize it as well. > > tl;dr version: A Differential backup is always based off the most > recent completed successful Full backup of that Job at the time the > Differential was started (or possibly at the time it was scheduled, > I'm not 100% certain of that detail). An Incremental backup is > always based off the most recent completed successful backup of > that Job at *any* level.
A related question for anyone reading -- if I delete, say, the last two daily incremental backups and run a new one... would that incremental now pick up all of the files that were in those two plus whatever's changed since? - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novos...@umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/EI-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlFJ8vIACgkQmb+gadEcsb7klQCg5UUx9UlMw/2WLvahf2vmrV8Q WMwAnR7ID2ZIsOM109lAbS0DB1vBRcao =OxgI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
