Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive VFull Questions

2018-05-25 Thread Alfred Weintoegl
Hello Bill, many thanks for your reply. I'll try these very useful tips right away on our test-environment. And if it's possible I would appreciate it very much if you can send some sample configs... As Lloyd said: "...working from examples to be a good bit easier. Also more likely to not onl

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive VFull Questions

2018-05-24 Thread Bill Arlofski
Hello Alfred, A few things jump right out at me about your sample config... Consider standard Full job vs an Incremental or Differential. You do not have three different Jobs defined, each with a different level. This does not work in the context of Bacula. With Bacula, you define one job, and t

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive VFull Questions

2018-05-24 Thread Alfred Weintoegl
Hello Bill, Hello Lloyd, may I present a VFull-Backup-Configuration in testenvironment which runs only on Sundays while ervery other day (mon-sat) a incremental is running. This is a Test-Configuration with the idea that if a VFull doesn't succed it should be possible to repeat it within a week

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive VFull Questions

2018-05-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
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 scri

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive VFull Questions

2018-05-23 Thread Alfred Weintoegl
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 thi

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive VFull Questions

2018-05-23 Thread Lloyd Brown
I can't speak for Alfred, but I would love to see example configs of how to set up a progressive virtual-full, the underlying jobs, pools, etc.  I'm sure I could muddle my way through it using the documentation, but I find working from examples to be a good bit easier.  Also more likely to not only

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive VFull Questions

2018-05-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
bald" To: "Alfred Weintoegl" , bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 6:14:53 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive VFull Questions Hello, Perhaps the PVF whitepaper would help you if you have not already seen it:  www.bacula.orgt -> Documentation -&g

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive VFull Questions

2018-05-23 Thread Heitor Faria
; > To: "Alfred Weintoegl" , > bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 6:14:53 AM > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive VFull Questions > Hello, > > Perhaps the PVF whitepaper would help you if you have not already seen > it:

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive VFull Questions

2018-05-23 Thread 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 direc

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive VFull Questions

2018-05-22 Thread Bill Arlofski
On 05/22/2018 06:08 AM, 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 de

[Bacula-users] Progressive VFull Questions

2018-05-22 Thread Alfred Weintoegl
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: