Is it not acceptable to do your fulls on the first and third Sunday of each month, with diffs on the second, fourth, and fifth (if it exists) Sunday?

        Run = Level=Full Pool="Full-Pool Developer-PC" on first, third Sun at 0:05

        Run = Level=Differential Pool="Diff-Pool Developer-PC" on second, fourth, fifth Sun at 0:15

        Run = Level=Incremental Pool="Inc-Pool Developer-PC" mon-sat at 0:25

That syntax may not be exactly perfect (I don't have access to bacula right now), but it's close if not correct.

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Dan Schaefer <dan AT performanceadmin DOT com> wrote:

In English, I want to do a full backup on the 1st and the 16th of every
month. I also want to do a differential backup every Sunday and an
Incremental Monday-Saturday.
Here is my config:
        Run = Level=Full Pool="Full-Pool Developer-PC" on 1,16 at 0:05
        Run = Level=Differential Pool="Diff-Pool Developer-PC" sun at 0:15
        Run = Level=Incremental Pool="Inc-Pool Developer-PC" mon-sat at
0:25

Since the Full backups are represented in numbers, the Diff and Inc
backups always have overlap with the Full. For example, today Sept 1, a
full backup was scheduled to run @ 00:05 and an incremental backup was
scheduled @ 0:25. If in fact there were no changes to the files in the
fileset, the incremental backup shouldn't have backed up anything. But
it runs anyway.

Is there a schedule that I can configure that will eliminate backup
redundancy? One option is to do a diff on, say, the 8th and 22st of the
month and the incremental on every other day not covered. I would,
however, like to keep the differentials on Sunday.

Thanks in advance.

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Thanks,
Dan Schaefer
Web Developer/Systems Analyst
Performance Administration Corp.
ph 800-405-3148

Thanks,
Dan Schaefer
Web Developer/Systems Analyst
Performance Administration Corp.
ph 800-405-3148