Hello Alfred,
Thanks for your kind feedback. You might be interested in the history
of this feature.
It was first proposed by one of Bacula Systems support engineers, then
another support engineer (a scripting guru) wrote a script to make it
work with older Baculas. They presented the script at a Bacula Systems
bi-annual company meeting, and liked the concept and considered
implementing it in Bacula. Bareos then implemented it in their code
(i.e. no script needed). I thought the Bareos implementation was
excessively complicated, so I then implemented my own design in Bacula,
which I consider much more intuitive. The concept is a bit tricky but
once one understands it, it turns out to be very cool :-)
Best regards,
Kern
On 05/24/2018 08:36 AM, Alfred Weintoegl wrote:
Thank you Kern,
the PVF whitepaper is a great help, because every aspect is declared
exactly in this paper.
I didn't knew it before.
And thank you Bill also for your prompt answer.
I've only just seen the following PVF demonstration:
https://www.baculasystems.com/ml/pvf3.svg#PVF-title
and this looks unbelievable but is exactly what we want to use for our
future backups...
(...as the Progressive Virtual Full Backup is now available also for
the free bacula version V9.0.x).
Thanks for this great work of free SW
Alfred
Am 23.05.2018 um 11:14 schrieb Kern Sibbald:
> Hello,
>
> Perhaps the PVF whitepaper would help you if you have not already
seen it: www.bacula.orgt -> Documentation -> White Papers ->
Progressive ...
>
>
> On 05/22/2018 02:08 PM, Alfred Weintoegl wrote:
>> In "New Features in 9.0.0 - Progressive Virtual Full" documentation
it says:
>>
>> "The new directive Delete Consolidated Jobs expects a yes or no
value that if set to yes will cause any old Job that is consolidated
during a Virtual Full to be deleted.".
>>
>> Here are some questions of a bacula-newbie:
>>
>> What directive decides when jobs are deleted when creating a
Virtual Full Backup:
>> a) The Retention time of the Incremental Backup Pool for
incremental jobs ?
>> b) The Job Retention time of the incremental jobs?
>> c) Or if this job is deleted because of "Delete Consolidated Jobs =
yes"?
>>
>> in case of (c): Would jobs be deleted immediately or only after the
Virtual Full is finished?
>>
>> Does anyone have experience with Progressive VFull-Backups?
>>
>>
>> thx
>> Alfred
>>
>>
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Am 22.05.2018 um 19:08 schrieb Bill Arlofski:
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>
>
> Hello Alfred,
>
> Option (c) is the correct choice.
>
>
>> in case of (c): Would jobs be deleted immediately or only after the
Virtual
>> Full is finished?
>
> Jobs that are consolidated into a Virtual Full are only deleted once
the
> Virtual Full job has successfully completed with a JobStatus of "T".
If the
> Virtual Full fails for any reason, no Incrementals will be deleted.
And of
> course, this is only true if the "DeleteConsolidatedJobs = yes" is set.
>
>
>> Does anyone have experience with Progressive VFull-Backups?
>
> Yes, I do. Do you have more questions?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bill
>
>
>
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