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

2011-01-06 15:02:00
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?
From: Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
To: Silver Salonen <silver AT ultrasoft DOT ee>
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:59:11 -0500
On 01/06/11 14:55, Silver Salonen wrote:
> So which volumes will it use when you want to restore from the job? The last 
> full and all the other incrementals etc. it used as a basis of VirtualFull? 
> So you actually cannot rewrite them after you've run VirtualFull from them? 
> If it were so, it wouldn't make any sense, would it?
> 
> From the manual I read this: "The VirtualFull backup is accomplished without 
> contacting the client by reading the previous backup data and writing it to a 
> volume in a different pool."
> 
> So actually it IS creating a new backup, doesn't it?

Doh!  You're right, I wasn't thinking...


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