Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental upgraded to full?

2008-04-25 08:14:27
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental upgraded to full?
From: Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>
To: Alan Brown <ajb2 AT mssl.ucl.ac DOT uk>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:13:54 -0400
On Apr 25, 2008, at 6:02 AM, Alan Brown wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Dan Langille wrote:
>
>>> Last night I ran the backup cycle, bacula did the full backup and  
>>> immediately tried to do the incremental backup. Instead of doing  
>>> incremental backup it upgraded it to a full backup. Why did it  
>>> upgrade to a full backup if full backup was done right before it  
>>> started incremental?
>>
>> The upgrade to FULL is done at the time the job is put into the  
>> queue.
>> At that time there was no FULL backup.
>
> IMHO this is a bug.

It is a design choice.

> The status check should be done when the job exits the queue and  
> starts
> up, not when it's placed on the queue.

Patches welcome to [optionally] change that behaviour.

-- 
Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/
dan AT langille DOT org





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