> 
> hi everyone,
> 
> i have a question about bacula job scheduling. I have a pretty simple
> schedule for my backup: do a full backup at the beginning at the month
> and then incremental ones every day:
> 
> 
> Schedule {
>   Name = "DefaultCycle"
>   Run = Incremental mon-sun at 23:05
>   Run = Full 1st sun at 23:05
> }
> 
> now, the problem with this schedule is that full backups often take
> several days to complete. during that period if (for various reasons)
> no previous full backup is available, new incremental backups get
> scheduled and automatically promoted to full backups since no full
> backup exists. is there a way to tell bacula not to schedule new jobs
> unless the previous job from the same schedule has finished?
> 

You can add a setting to disallow duplicate jobs (see the manual) on a
per job basis, although when the duplicate tries to run Bacula logs an
error which can be a bit annoying. It works fine apart from that though.

James


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