On 09/06/2011 08:37 AM, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 01 Sep 2011, Eric Pratt wrote: > >> The incremental will run, but it shouldn't back anything up if nothing >> changed since the last time the job ran. When it runs, it looks to >> see if anything changed and if not, exits with OK. There is no >> redundancy there. Check the byte count of the job or list the files >> backed up by the job to see if it actually moved anything. If the >> byte count is 0 and/or there are no files in it, then it's working >> exactly as you expect. > This should be right, assuming your data isn't changing much around the > time of the backups. > > If you absolutely must only run the one live backup per day, you could > consider turning on the "accurate" backup option and using something more > like: > > Run = Level=VirtualFull Pool="Full-Pool Developer-PC" on 1,16 at 5:05 > Run = Level=Differential Pool="Diff-Pool Developer-PC" sun at 0:15 > Run = Level=Incremental Pool="Inc-Pool Developer-PC" mon-sat at 0:15 > > This will run live differential and incremental backups on the days you > specify , but rather than running a Full backup on the live data, it uses > the existing backup data to consolidate the last full backup and the recent > differentials and incrementals into a new Full backup. As the live server > isn't involved, you can probably be flexible about what time that happens. > This also reduces the load and backup window on the live server in most > instances. > > This should be pretty much equivalent to running a full backup at 0:15 on > the 1st and 16th. > > This is pretty easy to do with disk-based backups, but you may need to > think a little if you're using tapes, to make sure all of the right tapes > are available. > > > Gavin Gavin, This certainly will fix my problem. All my backups are in fact disk-based and I have a separate process backing up to tapes (not Bacula, atm). I like the idea of the virtual full option, because my full backups usually take longer than I would like. Keeping the full backup processing on the director will help out a lot, because the backups are of the live servers and the diffs and incs will all finish "after hours". I will try this VirtualFull option and report back.
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