Hi,

09.04.2008 03:31, Seth Miller wrote:
> The size of the backups are normal.  Their shared web servers so
> customers can upload just about anything they want.  We have a few
> customers that take advantage of all the disk space so they upload
> tons of video and large images.
> 
> Anyhow, my "solution" is to create a separate schedule for the
> stragglers aptly named "bigdogs".  I'll just allow for a 3 days break
> in between the full and next incremental.  It's probably not ideal for
> every situation but I think it works in mine.

Well, this surely works, but it requires explicit configuration and 
that is likely to fail sometimes.

> This really should be something that gets addressed in a newer
> version.  I don't think it should be forced that the next incremental
> be upgraded to a full and start running but at least have an option to
> change this behavior.

Yes, and...

> Maybe we can put a bounty on this request.  I'm sure I could get some
> funds from my company to get this feature added.

... I believe some thought has already been given to this, so 
implementing it might be close. See what funding you can get and then 
send a mail to Kern!

Arno

> Regards,
> 
> Seth
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Drew Bentley <bacula.user AT gmail DOT com> 
> wrote:
> 
>>  One way you could get around this is to make it so only 1 job can run
>>  at a time for a particular client. This will allow the full backup to
>>  complete and the incremental queued to not actually start until such
>>  job is completed.
>>
>>  But I'd have to agree, what are you backing up that is taking more
>>  than two days? I hope you say you've got terabytes of data streaming
>>  along or there is something else you should be worried about.
>>
>>  -Drew
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