On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Maria McKinley <maria AT shadlen DOT org> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I posted this a bit ago, but didn't receive a response, so thought I
> would try again...
>
> I would like to have most of the jobs I run to be compressed and put on
> disk, but I want the daily incremental to be put on tape, which means
> letting the hardware do compression. It looks like the only way to do
> this is to define a separate FileSet for the jobs done nightly than for
> the jobs done weekly. However, I'm pretty sure that this will mean that
> the daily is truly a separate job, and will not recognize the weekly
> full backup as the same job, even though they are the same files, and
> will thus not 'reset' every week to the current weekly backup, and will
> continue to indefinitely do incremental to the full set it will want to
> do when I start the bacula daemon. Is there any way around this, or
> should I just move entirely to disk?
>

If you are just talking about incrementals I would just let the
compression run. You are correct that this new fileset will make it
look like a different job and it will promote the first to a full.

John

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