Hello bacula-community, i have a question. I've read that chapter of the bacula-documentation: https://www.bacula.org/11.0.x-manuals/en/main/Automated_Disk_Backup.html It states:"Now since each of these different kinds of saves needs to remain valid for differing periods, the simplest way to do this (and possibly the only) is to have a separate Pool for each backup type.". The Tutorial uses three pools, a incremental one, a differential one, and a full one to accomplish a basic GFS-scheme-backup. I got my bacula-Installation running with multiple clients/file-deamons and do my backups on a harddrive. MY QUESTIONS: I am wondering if there is a possibility to use four pools with a added second incremental-pool? THE PROBLEM I SEE: is that an incremental backup always references the last incremental-, differential- or full-backup and saves only the files that have changed since then. In my scheme i have two different incremental-backups, the daily and the weekly one. The weekly one always references the daily one that came the day before(saturday), right? When i keep the weekly one around for more than 4weeks(i have chosen 5weeks) and the daily one only for more than 10 days(i have chosen 14days) the daily files are going to be deleted after 14days but the monthly one still references them. So there will be a "hole" in the backupset? I figured out, if it would be possible to have multiple "levels" of incremental-backups, like i could say that the weekly incremental-backup references only the weekly backups(level0) and the daily incremental-backups only the daily ones(level1) the problem would be gone. The same problem would occur when i would keep the full-backup for to short around. For example if the full backup overwrites the only existing one, there will be no full backup left, that the differential-backup could reference and I lose all backups i made to that point. I've asked the same question over on serverfault and didnt get any answer. Since I dont know if it's forbidden to post links to other websites on this mailinglist I won't do it. I'm also quite unsure how to add and format the director.conf. in this email. I would be very happy hearing about how to add it to this maillinglist the right way. I wish everyone a good and happy weekend and thank you reading this far. Yours faithfully Sebastian
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