job type that will create a reverse
incremental (or decremental) backup from two existing full backups.
Date: 05 October 2009
Origin: Griffith College Dublin. Some sponsorship available.
Contact: Gavin McCullagh
Status:
What: The ability to take two full backup
Hi,
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> I think I now understand what you are asking for. You want to have
> Incremental Jobs go forward in time from a Full (current behavior) and
> incremental (decremental) jobs that go backward in time. Those reverse
> incremental jobs would be som
Hi,
On Sat, 05 Sep 2009, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> I don't think you have looked into the possibility of doing separate "long
> term" backups to tape. If you do it correctly, I am not convinced that the
> growth in data is as bad as you say. If you do a Full once a year then
> incrementals once
Hi,
On Thu, 03 Sep 2009, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> I suspect that all that is already possible with Bacula but may require a bit
> of scripting. In short, you need support from a Bacula specialist, and we
> don't do that on this list (bacula-devel).
Fair enough. I asked for suggested approaches
Hi Kern,
many thanks for your reply.
On Thu, 03 Sep 2009, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> This sounds to me like it would be resolved by our Base project (though
> perhaps not as automatically as you would like). See the "projects" file for
> details. This project is currently being implemented for th
ed message from Gavin McCullagh -
Hi,
I'm not sure if this suggestion is well-known already, implemented already
or maybe just a plain stupid idea that wouldn't work. So, I'm going to
suggest it and don my flame-retardant suit. Feel free to flame or shoot
it down.
Suppose
