Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Base jobs and incremental backups

2011-05-24 03:57:53
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Base jobs and incremental backups
From: Jeremy Maes <jma AT schaubroeck DOT be>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 09:55:11 +0200
Op 23/05/2011 23:40, TipMeAbout schreef:
> Le mercredi 18 mai 2011 j'ai reçu le message suivant:
>
>>> Are there any informations in the log file that prove the first full
>>> after a base job is effectively using the base job ?
>>> [...]
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm back with news, but not good.
>
> I have done a base job backup of the laptop system through LAN connection (job
> name: laptop-lan_system.basejob). Below the definition of this job:
...
> Then a full backup of this client through WIFI (job name:laptop-wlan_system)
> and mentionning that this job should help itself with the previous base job.
> Below the definition of this job:
...
> As I have launched manually the full, I have change in command line the level
> and pool of the job laptop-wlan_system to set them to full.
>
>
> But unfortunately, it take more than 5 hours to do the backup and from the
> report at the end of the backup, it did not take the base job into
> consideration as no line appears to indicate the percentage of use from the
> base job:
...
> So what's wrong with my configuration ?
>
> Thanks for your help !
>
> JC
I myself know very little about the base job functionality, but just 
from reading the answers to your question earlier on the list I'd say 
this might be your problem:
(quoting literally from an earlier message by Pablo)

"When you do a Base backup, you need to do a FULL immediately after,
because the BASE backup is a "special" backup and you cannot restore 
only from it."

  -->> This tells me you need to run the first FULL backup immediately 
after the BASE, preferably on the LAN part as the base job itself is 
more like a reference point than a real backup.

"All the FULL backups that you will run after that first FULL are going 
to be very small, so you should only need to have the laptop on Gig on 
your first FULL backup."

-->> Again, this says that you'll be seeing small jobs only AFTER the 
first full you run. I do believe he accidentally typed BASE instead of 
FULL at the end here though.

Regards,
Jeremy

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