--- On Thu, 6/19/08, Jean Gobin <jgobin AT strozllc DOT com> wrote:
> From: Jean Gobin <jgobin AT strozllc DOT com>
> Subject: [Bacula-users] Scheduling policy and promoting backups
> To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Date: Thursday, June 19, 2008, 7:57 AM
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> Hi all,
>
> I have a small and fun question: when Bacula promotes a
> scheduled job from INCR or DIFF to FULL, when does the
> promotion happen? Is it at queueing or dequeuing time?
It promotes it when the job is queued. If the full backup has not yet
finished when the job is queued, it will upgrade the job to FULL.
IMHO it should upgrade the job when it is dequeued.
>
> Here is a practical case: we had a FULL backup taking far
> longer than expected. So, 24 hours after the first job
> start, a second one started, which should have been only an
> INCR backup. It was successfully queued.
>
> When the first one completed, the second one was dequeued
> ... and was promoted to FULL. I had to cancel it to avoid
> having another FULL backup running and collecting another
> INCR in the queue.
>
> The next job (also an INCR) completed succesfully as an
> INCR.
>
> So I guess that the promotion is made at queueing time.
> Shouldn't it be at dequeueing?
>
> Best,
> Jean
>
>
> Jean F. Gobin
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