Okay, so if I understand correctly, "no previous jobs found" in this case (progressive virtual full) actually means "not enough previous jobs found"?
On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 2:55 PM Bill Arlofski <waa-bac...@revpol.com> wrote: > On 4/10/19 12:35 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: > > I'm having trouble getting virtual full backups working. I feel like I'm > > missing something basic about how they're supposed to be structured, but > I > > could use help figuring out what it is. > > > > It's also possible I misunderstand the error message -- will it error > out if > > there aren't 30 jobs to consolidate yet? There are previous jobs with > this > > definition, but not 30 of them. > > > Hello David, > > > You have that last statement exactly correct. You need at least 30 jobs to > consolidate with this "PROGRESSIVE Virtual Full" (PVF) configuration... > > > However... this "Backups To Keep" is for Progressive Virtual Fulls (PVF). > "PVFs" are sort of a "sliding window" of backups that only and always go > back > to a certain time (like 30 days in the past, for example) in the past.. > Where > the last/oldest available Full slides forward with each PVF backup. > > If you are trying to just do normal "Virtual Fulls", then this option is > not > what you want, so you should remove it. > > Hope this helps... > > > Best regards, > > Bill > > > -- > Bill Arlofski > http://www.revpol.com/bacula > -- Not responsible for anything below this line -- > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Department of Mathematics University of California, Santa Barbara
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