Hello 
I'm trying to implement deduplication in my bacula installation but I didn't 
understand how does it fit into my installation. The bacula documentation about 
base jobs are not very usable (my opinion). Further I spent some hours in 
google but I didn't find any helpful hint.
 
My problem:
I have 2 servers called asterix and obelix. I want to backup both servers with 
bacula. Asterix is the primary server and obelix is rsync-mirror of asterix. So 
obelix should be nearly identical with asterix and the backup of obelix should 
be based on asterix. The pool resides on disk.

Job Definitions:
Job {
  Name = "asterix-Backup_BUERO"
  Client = asterix
  Schedule = "Sched_1st-sun-Full_sun-Diff_daily-Incr"
  JobDefs = "JobDef_BUERO"
}

Job {
  Name = "obelix-Backup_BUERO"
  Client = obelix
  Schedule = "Sched_2nd-sun-Full_sun-Diff_daily-Incr"
  JobDefs = "JobDef_BUERO"

Schedule Definitions:
Schedule {
  Name = "Sched_1st-sun-Full_sun-Diff_daily-Incr"
  Run = Level=Full         1st sun     at 01:00
  Run = Level=Differential 2nd-5th sun at 01:00
  Run = Level=Incremental  mon-sat     at 01:00
}

Schedule {
  Name = "Sched_2nd-sun-Full_sun-Diff_daily-Incr"
  Run = Level=Full         2nd sun     at 02:00
  Run = Level=Differential 3rd-5th sun at 02:00
  Run = Level=Differential 1st sun     at 02:00
  Run = Level=Incremental  mon-sat     at 02:00

As you see in the schedules, asterix is doing a full backup once a month, a 
differential backup each sunday and a daily incremental backup. obelix is doing 
the same with 1 week offset.

If I declare asterix as Level=Base what happens with differential and 
incremental backup of asterix. 
1. Are these type of backups also a base backup?
2. Which backup (full/diff/incr) is base for obelix? All jobs have the same 
name.
3. Or do I need an extra job with run a full backup as a "base-only-job" on 
asterix and have a reference from both servers to them?
3.1. If yes, what happens if this "base-only-job" is replaced by a new one? Is 
the old "base-only-job" still available as long as all references are gone?

I appreciate any info.
regards robi

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