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 >> >> >> -- >> 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 > > -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Department of Mathematics University of California, Santa Barbara
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