Re: [Bacula-users] opportunistic backup?

2016-11-17 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 11/17/16 08:08, Paul J R wrote: > I dont need a consistent full, any backup it manages to do is a plus. > I've tried splitting it into multiple job sets but the way the dataset > changes makes it fairly resistant cause the data changes its name as it > gets older. The data *changes its name

Re: [Bacula-users] opportunistic backup?

2016-11-17 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, This is an interesting problem, but it is outside the design of Bacula, because Bacula assumes that you can always make a Full backup, then thereafter, you can do things like Incremental Forever and Progressive Virtual Full backups. One thing you might try is using the "stop" command. I

Re: [Bacula-users] opportunistic backup?

2016-11-17 Thread Josh Fisher
On 11/16/2016 9:12 AM, Paul J R wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a data set that i'd like to backup thats large and not very > important. Backing it up is a "nice to have" not a must have. I've been > trying to find a way to back it up to disk that isnt disruptive to the > normal flow of backups, but e

Re: [Bacula-users] opportunistic backup?

2016-11-17 Thread Josip Deanovic
On Friday 2016-11-18 00:08:36 Paul J R wrote: > I dont need a consistent full, any backup it manages to do is a plus. > I've tried splitting it into multiple job sets but the way the dataset > changes makes it fairly resistant cause the data changes its name as it > gets older. > > Recovering the

Re: [Bacula-users] opportunistic backup?

2016-11-17 Thread Paul J R
On 17/11/16 07:26, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 11/16/16 09:12, Paul J R wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I have a data set that i'd like to backup thats large and not very >> important. Backing it up is a "nice to have" not a must have. I've been >> trying to find a way to back it up to disk that isnt disru

Re: [Bacula-users] opportunistic backup?

2016-11-16 Thread Bryn Hughes
On 2016-11-16 06:12 AM, Paul J R wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a data set that i'd like to backup thats large and not very > important. Backing it up is a "nice to have" not a must have. I've been > trying to find a way to back it up to disk that isnt disruptive to the > normal flow of backups, but e

Re: [Bacula-users] opportunistic backup?

2016-11-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 11/16/16 09:12, Paul J R wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a data set that i'd like to backup thats large and not very > important. Backing it up is a "nice to have" not a must have. I've been > trying to find a way to back it up to disk that isnt disruptive to the > normal flow of backups, but ev

[Bacula-users] opportunistic backup?

2016-11-16 Thread Paul J R
Hi All, I have a data set that i'd like to backup thats large and not very important. Backing it up is a "nice to have" not a must have. I've been trying to find a way to back it up to disk that isnt disruptive to the normal flow of backups, but everytime i end up in a place where bacula wants