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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula running incremental after full job failure

2010-06-08 08:50:59
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula running incremental after full job failure
From: Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:48:10 -0400
On 06/08/10 06:44, Beck J Mr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We had a power cut over the weekend. As look would have it, this
> happened to be a weekend of full backup jobs and, as a result of the
> power loss, quite a lot of the backup jobs failed.
> 
> I thought had read in the past that somebody was annoyed that Bacula
> then insisted on running a full backup again because of a failure. I
> thought this was rather handy as it would negate the need to manually
> start up all the failed jobs.
> 
> However, when the jobs ran last night only incrementals ran. Do I need
> to configure something to manually re-run failed full jobs, or did I
> misinterpret what I remember reading?

[...]

> JobDefs {
>   Name = "DefaultJob"
>   Type = Backup
>   Accurate = yes
>   Level = Incremental
>   Pool = Default
>   Messages = Standard
>   Write Bootstrap = "/var/bacula/%c.bsr"
>   Allow Duplicate Jobs = no
>   Cancel Queued Duplicates = yes
> }

You need to add "Rerun Failed Levels = yes" in this resource.


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