Dear All,

I use bacula on an old PC for backing up a network to disk. To save 
energy, this machine powers on briefly each night to run the backups and 
then shuts down after the last bacula job has run or failed. This works 
well, but it does mean that job resheduling doesn't work.

I wondered whether you might add a "Max Backup Interval" option for a 
job and a level of "Possible"?

"Max Backup Interval" would be analogous to the new MaxFullInterval and 
MaxDiffInterval options 
(http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/New_Features.html). When the slot 
for a "Possible" job came, the scheduler would check the list of 
previous jobs and upgrade the job to an incremental, or differential or 
full backup depending on the values of "MaxBackupInterval", 
"MaxDiffInterval" and "MaxFullInterval".

That would allow seamless scheduling in situations where the clients are 
often disconnected, and where only the approximate interval between 
backup types matters rather than precise scheduling.

I hope this is the right place to make such a suggestion.

Many thanks,

Chris.

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