On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:11:28PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 02:12:13PM -0400, John Lockard wrote: > > When you run a job by hand the schedule isn't involved. > > Either way, for your "Schedule" entry you need "Level=" > > before the work "Full". > > > > Schedule { > > Name = "test" > > Run = Level=Full at 11:50 > > } > > Thank John for pointing out this, I searched the documentation and it > should be like what you said. But I wonder why bacula does not give me > an error or warning when I did not get the config correct. > > > > > > > But, your problem is that your Job doesn't have a Default > > Level defined. You'll need something like this: > > > > Job { > > Name = "job_backup1" > > Type = Backup > > Level = Full > > . > > . > > } > > I don't understand the point of a default backup level. Since after all > I will set the levels explicitly in the schedule resources. Is there > some exceptional case when a default bacckup level is useful?
The point of the default backup level is for when you need to run a job by hand from the console. If you don't run anything other than Fulls (for example), you can just define the backup level in one place. If you run multiple levels, you set those in the schedule, but you set the default level in the Job, so that on the occasion you need to run a job manually, it will select a certain level of job. In your case, it sounds like you are most interested in running incremental jobs by hand, so setting the default level to "Incremental" makes the most sense. In my case, I'm generally not as worried about Incremental jobs as I am about the failure of a Full, so my default level is "Full". -John -- "The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways." - Ansel Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------- John M. Lockard | U of Michigan - School of Information Unix and Security Admin | 1214 SI North - 1075 Beal Ave. jlock...@umich.edu | Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2112 www.umich.edu/~jlockard | 734-615-8776 | 734-647-8045 FAX ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users