Hello,

I confirm that the Allow Duplicate Jobs patch is and has been for some 
time in Bacula.

Best regards,
Kern

On 02/08/2017 01:36 PM, Thomas Lohman wrote:
>> One of the queued backups is the next incremental backup of "archive".
>> My expectation was that the incremental backup would run only some hours
>> after the full backup finishes, so the difference is really small and it
>> only takes some minutes and only requires a small amount of tape
>> storage. The problem now is that bacula does its check if there already
>> is a full backup of "archive" available when adding the job to the queue
>> and not when running it. Since the full backup has not been finished
>> yet, there is none and bacula turns the second incremental backup (and
>> probably the third one) into a full backup as well.
>>
>> I'm currently running bacula 5.2.6, so my question is if anybody knows
>> a solution to this problem (apart from manually cancelling the queued
>> incremental jobs) or if an upgrade to bacula 7 might solve the problem.
>> The upgrade to 7.4 is planned for the future already.
> I believe that the problem that you're describing is the same one I had
> a number of years ago when running 5.2.x.  I had fixed it and submitted
> a patch I believe.  So my guess is that this should now be fixed and
> should not be an issue in 7.4.x.
>
> http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1882
>
> In addition, there are options to cancel new jobs if there are already
> running jobs, etc.  Please see the following job options
>
>     Allow Duplicate Jobs = yes/no
>     Cancel Lower Level Duplicates = yes/no
>     Cancel Queued Duplicates = yes/no
>     Cancel Running Duplicates = yes/no
>
>
> --tom
>
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