Am 14.09.2010 09:53, schrieb Silver Salonen:
> On Tuesday 14 September 2010 10:41:38 Christian Manal wrote:
>> Am 14.09.2010 09:30, schrieb Silver Salonen:
>>> 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 :)
>>>
>>
>> Well, it could have been, that the dynamically generated FileSet only
>> changes now and then.
> 
> The dataset is big enough to contain at least a modified file for every day :)
> 
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> What about your retention periods? Maybe the job or volume of the last
>> full backup got pruned.
> 
> Retention period of the full volume is 10 years. The client's file and job 
> retention periods are 6 months. So I don't think configuration of any of 
> these parameters' could have caused that.
> 
> --
> Silver
> 


Then I'm out of ideas. Sorry.

Regards,
Christian Manal

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