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Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

2011-01-06 12:57:21
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?
From: Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:54:51 -0500
On 01/06/11 12:36, Sean Clark wrote:
> I think if you give the virtual full a lower priority than the
> incremental, you can schedule both for the same day and have it always
> do the incremental then the virtual full in the correct order (haven't
> actually TRIED to do this myself, so I'm guessing).

The problem with this is that *none* of the VirtualFulls will run until
*no* higher-priority job is running.  Which means that a single
long-running job, say a Full backup of a large server, could cause all
of your VirtualFulls to be delayed until it finishes.


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