[Bacula-users] Always upgrade Incremental to Full. Why

[Kamen Medarski]

I have a strange situation here. I can't find any reason why bacula always try to upgrade scheduled or even manualy runed incremental job. Full job appear to be done without errors for any client, but next incremental job was upgraded to full without any clue. I've made triple check
to configuration, but there is nothing strange. I've attach my dir config, please can someone help me with this issue.


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[Arno Lehmann]

Hi,

Post by Kamen Medarski
I have a strange situation here. I can't find any reason why bacula
always try to upgrade scheduled or even manualy runed incremental job.
Full job appear to be done without errors for any client, but next
incremental job was upgraded to full without any clue. I've made triple
check to configuration, but there is nothing strange. I've attach my
dir config, please can someone help me with this issue.

You've got your jobs set up incorrect.

It is not the right thing to set upone job for full and one for
incremental backup. Instead, set up one job only, and decide which level
(full, incremental, or differential) to run when you start the job
(using the console or a schedule).

After that is done, and there remain errors, post these - I didn't look
at the configuration very closely.

Arno

[Kamen Medarski]

I 've been made a error while implementing
job section. Into my
previuos config i was defined separate jobs for full and incremental job, and for that reason bacula was trying to upgrade incrementall to full, because names of jobs are different. But why, i'm wondering, why job name should be the same for jobs, this dosen't make sense
for me, but it's my
opinion.


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[Michel Meyers]

I 've been made a error while implementing job section. Into my
previuos config i was defined separate jobs for full and incremental
job, and for that reason bacula was trying to upgrade incrementall to
full, because names of jobs are different. But why, i'm wondering, why
job name should be the same for jobs, this dosen't make sense for me,
but it's my opinion.

If the jobs weren't the same, how would Bacula know for which job the
Incremental applies? You might think it is logical if you have only one
job doing full and one doing incremental backups but as soon as you add
another job doing full backups, it becomes difficult to find out to
which the incremental should apply. (It would certainly be possible by
comparing clients, filesets etc etc, but certainly a lot of code would
go into that)

Greetings,
Michel

[Kamen Medarski]

Yes it's my delusion. A little while after sending previous mail, i downed on me that situatiation like this may appear.

Thank's for all of you a lot.

Cheers.


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