On 10/07/10 13:40, Lamp Zy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It will be great (at least for me :-) ) when Bacula looks for previous 
> Full backup on a brand new client to also check if a Full backup is 
> currently running.
> 
> We do Incr. backups M-F at night and they use tapes from IncrTapes pool. 
> Full backups use tapes from the FullTapes pool. When I add a new client 
> sometimes I run the Full backup manually to avoid Bacula changing tapes 
> in the middle of the night.
> 
> The problem is that when my manually ran Full backup takes longer then I 
> expected and overlaps with the regularly scheduled Incr backups. Then 
> Bacula runs the Incr. backup for my new system and because it can't find 
> a previous Full backup it changes it from Incr to Full.
> 
> But, the Full backup is already running. It just hasn't finished yet. 
> So, at the end, I end up with two Full backups for the same system.

Peter,
This is a solved problem.  The following two existing directives added
to your JobDefs or Job resource will take care of this for you:

Allow Duplicate Jobs = no
Cancel Queued Duplicates = yes


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