On Tuesday 14 September 2010 10:13:49 Christian Manal wrote:
> Am 14.09.2010 08:36, schrieb Silver Salonen:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I use Bacula 5.0.2 on FreeBSD 8.0. I have a huge archive-type backup that 
> > has no full backup in its schedule:
> > 
> > Schedule {
> >         Name = Archive
> >         Run = Level=Differential 1st fri at 23:05
> >         Run = Level=Incremental 2nd-5th fri at 23:05
> >         Run = Level=Incremental sat-thu at 23:05
> > }
> > 
> > The job builds its fileset dynamically with "/usr/bin/find /path/to/backup 
> > -type f -mtime +90d -print" - it takes a while, but does its job. From 
> > time-to-time the job just gets upgraded to full.. like today:
> > 
> > 13-Sep 23:05 velvet-dir JobId 9135: 13-Sep 23:05 velvet-dir JobId 9135: No 
> > prior or suitable Full backup found in catalog. Doing FULL backup.
> > 13-Sep 23:05 velvet-dir JobId 9135: Start Backup JobId 9135, 
> > Job=userdata-archive.2010-09-13_23.05.01_05
> > 
> > Any ideas why this happens?
> > 
> > Is there a way to continue with incremental backups once such a full backup 
> > has been cancelled (eg. modifying Bacula DB manually)? It would really hurt 
> > to start from scratch with this archive.
> > 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> did you set "Ignore FileSet Changes = yes" in your FileSet's
> "Options"-Section? If not, the job level will be elevated to full, if
> the FileSet changes.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Christian Manal

Yes I did. Otherwise the job would be upgraded to full every time :)

This upgrade happened now after 35 days, ie the full backup was done 35 days 
ago, on 10th of August. Meanwhile only incrementals/differentials were done.

-- 
Silver

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