[Bacula-users] Setting Priority

2011-07-08 Thread Mike Hobbs
Hello, I was wondering if someone could help me out with an issue. I've been testing Bacula 5.0.3 and Vchanger for a few months now, everything is working good and I hope to put this into production very soon. For the past few months I have only been backing up a small handful of machines, I'm

Re: [Bacula-users] Setting Priority

2011-07-10 Thread Ben Walton
Excerpts from Mike Hobbs's message of Fri Jul 08 15:23:47 -0400 2011: Hi Mike, > Due to the amount of data and machines I'll be backing up, I can see > that when the first of the month comes around, running all my level > 0 (Full) backups is going to take a week or more. I'm concerned > because

Re: [Bacula-users] Setting Priority

2011-07-11 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:07:22 -0400, Ben Walton said: > > You can override priority for each job that uses the jobdefs on a > job-by-job basis, but you'll also need to make multiple jobs per > client (one for full, one for daily/differential) so that you can > assign different priorities. Do

Re: [Bacula-users] Setting Priority

2011-07-11 Thread Ben Walton
Excerpts from Martin Simmons's message of Mon Jul 11 05:24:38 -0400 2011: Hi Martin, > > You can override priority for each job that uses the jobdefs on a > > job-by-job basis, but you'll also need to make multiple jobs per > > client (one for full, one for daily/differential) so that you can > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Setting Priority

2011-07-11 Thread hymie!
I personally found the built-in Priority system to be unsuitable for my needs. I am instead using the (undocumented) feature that backups are typically executed in the order that they are placed into the schedule. So in my case, I have four different machines, and each machine gets a full backup

Re: [Bacula-users] Setting Priority

2011-07-14 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 07/11/2011 10:29 AM, hymie! wrote: > However, I might suggest that, since Incremental/Differential backups > depend on having a Full backup already completed, you have your > priorities backwards. The Full backups, imho, should be given the higher > priority than the incrementals. Maybe I didn

Re: [Bacula-users] Setting Priority

2011-07-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 07/14/11 16:04, Mike Hobbs wrote: > On 07/11/2011 10:29 AM, hymie! wrote: >> However, I might suggest that, since Incremental/Differential backups >> depend on having a Full backup already completed, you have your >> priorities backwards. The Full backups, imho, should be given the higher >> pr