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[Bacula-users] Scheduling policy and promoting backups

2008-06-19 08:58:06
Subject: [Bacula-users] Scheduling policy and promoting backups
From: "Jean Gobin" <jgobin AT strozllc DOT com>
To: <bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:57:40 -0400
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 Hi all,

I have a small and fun question: when Bacula promotes a scheduled job from INCR 
or DIFF to FULL, when does the promotion happen? Is it at queueing or dequeuing 
time?

Here is a practical case: we had a FULL backup taking far longer than expected. 
So, 24 hours after the first job start, a second one started, which should have 
been only an INCR backup. It was successfully queued. 

When the first one completed, the second one was dequeued ... and was promoted 
to FULL. I had to cancel it to avoid having another FULL backup running and 
collecting another INCR in the queue. 

The next job (also an INCR) completed succesfully as an INCR. 

So I guess that the promotion is made at queueing time. Shouldn't it be at 
dequeueing?

Best,
Jean


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