On 01/16/15 09:45, Gustavo Lacerda wrote: > Hi Uwe, thank you for your help. I have done a full backup on tape and > it completed with no errors. The problem is that the daily job > (differential backup on File) doesn't recognize that a full backup on > tape was done previously and asks to do a full backup on File first. Is > there any way to fix this? > > Thanks, > Gustavo
Gustavo, To be blunt, that is because you're doing it wrong. You have this (summarized for brevity): > > Job { > > Name = homedir-bioinfo03-weekly > > Level = Full > > Schedule = WeeklyCycle > > Storage = tape-autochanger > > } > > > > Job { > > Name = homedir-bioinfo03-daily > > Level = Differential > > Schedule = WeeklyCycle > > Storage = File > > } Bacula cannot find a FULL backup to base your DIFFERENTIAL on *because it's a different job*. You cannot tell Bacula to base a differential backup on the last full backup of a different job. It doesn't work that way. It's like putting your Sunday roast into your neighbor's oven to cook, then expecting to be able to take it out of your own to serve it. Here's an example of how you *should* be doing it: Schedule { Name = "Monthly Rotation" Run = Full 1st mon at 04:30 Run = Differential 2nd-5th mon at 04:30 Run = Incremental tue-sun at 04:30 } JobDefs { Name = Backup Type = Backup Level = Full Pool = Full-Tape Full Backup Pool = Full-Tape Differential Backup Pool = Diff-Disk Incremental Backup Pool = Incr-Disk Schedule = "Monthly Rotation" ... } Job { Name = "Babylon5 Backup" JobDefs = Backup Client = babylon5 FileSet = "Gentoo Full Set" Pool = Full-Disk Full Backup Pool = Full-Disk Enabled = Yes } You see that there is just one job here. The JobDefs file overrides the storage for Differential and Incremental backups and sends them to disk pools, while Full backups go to a tape pool. Even though the Full backups are on different storage, they are the same job, and so Bacula can use the Full backup that ran to tape as a basis for the Differential stored to disk. -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications ph...@caerllewys.net p...@co.ordinate.org Landline: 603.293.8485 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users