Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Backup Job Question

2010-03-31 08:59:59
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Backup Job Question
From: Achim Gottinger <achim AT ag-web DOT biz>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:57:05 +0200
John Drescher schrieb:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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
Thank you for the quick reply, but whenever I try to run the first 
incremental backup it starts as a full backup and that's why I asked for 
a way to create an full backup catalogue entry without saving any data..

achim

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