I'm apparently still confused. I changed BackupsToKeep to 10 for the
eltanin-vfull job. Then I ran the incremental job repeatedly until there
were 11 since the last full backup. Finally, I ran my Virtual Full job. But
I still got "no previous jobs found".

Here's the list of jobs from the last actual full backup on:
| 22250 | eltanin       | 2019-04-09 13:41:39 | B    | F     | 108510   |
84671554923 | T         |
| 22257 | eltanin       | 2019-04-09 17:10:12 | B    | I     | 1104     |
212716762   | T         |
| 22313 | eltanin       | 2019-04-10 17:10:11 | B    | I     | 1239     |
174101825   | T         |
| 22363 | eltanin       | 2019-04-11 16:42:45 | B    | I     | 402      |
113157934   | T         |
| 22365 | eltanin       | 2019-04-11 16:47:57 | B    | I     | 39       |
28087251    | T         |
| 22371 | eltanin       | 2019-04-11 17:10:10 | B    | I     | 99       |
65072712    | T         |
| 22379 | eltanin       | 2019-04-11 17:23:55 | B    | I     | 94       |
48053911    | T         |
| 22380 | eltanin       | 2019-04-11 17:29:45 | B    | I     | 56       |
51802261    | T         |
| 22381 | eltanin       | 2019-04-11 17:33:30 | B    | I     | 35       |
34636048    | T         |
| 22382 | eltanin       | 2019-04-11 17:35:41 | B    | I     | 45       |
39417049    | T         |
| 22383 | eltanin       | 2019-04-11 17:40:31 | B    | I     | 61       |
43142265    | T         |
| 22384 | eltanin       | 2019-04-11 17:45:46 | B    | I     | 62       |
42251517    | T         |
+-------+---------------+---------------------+------+-------+----------+-------------+-----------+

I don't understand why these jobs don't get consolidated. Is there
something I need to set to tell Bacula that a particular Virtual Full job
corresponds to a particular Incremental job?


On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 2:02 PM David Brodbeck <brodb...@math.ucsb.edu>
wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>> --
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