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[Bacula-users] Fwd: Backup Job Question

2010-03-29 09:20:18
Subject: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Backup Job Question
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: bacula-users <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:18:13 -0400
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From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Job Question
To: Achim Gottinger <achim AT ag-web DOT biz>


On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Achim Gottinger <achim AT ag-web DOT biz> 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I plan to backup a few virtual server guest system. Once in a week I
> want to shutdown the guest systems and export em to a file. Each day I
> want to create incremental backups with bacula. So I'd need a way to
> create an full-backup catalog only before I shutdown the guest systems
> for the xen backup job, which will be used a s a basis for the
> incremental backups. Is this possible?
>

Yes. Make sure you have only 1 job. You could set the schedule to
incremental always. And manually run a job when you shutdown the
servers. Or if you want you can script commands to bconsole.

John



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