What is the actual issue here?, I may have missed the actual topic of 
discussion...

Base jobs are there to help reduce the overall file and network bandwidth when 
you do a full backup, the time wasted is mostly on verifications and database 
table content linking. 

On the server end it has to do some muxing with the basefile table in order to 
link them with the full - the one gotcha is that the temp table will end up 
dumping to disk (if using mysql) due to the ORDER BY and this can slow DB 
performance due to the multitude of files you have and how many full's you want 
to do.


Example of one of the read/writes performed: 
Copying to tmp table | INSERT INTO BaseFiles (BaseJobId, JobId, FileId, 
FileIndex) SELECT B.JobId AS BaseJobId, 140 AS JobId, B.FileId, B.FileIndex 
FROM basefile140 AS A, new_basefile140 AS B WHERE A.Path = B.Path AND A.Name = 
B.Name ORDER BY B.FileId | 


So in my case I've instructed each dept that Bacula is for specific data only, 
we now setup our servers in a certain way (install base OS, install certain 
programs/services the same way to make sure all deps are there, etc) and use 
Bacula to overwrite the configs/binaries/etc to make it the way it was. 

Also large data like DB dumps are handled in their own separate job config if 
they are on the same server to keep things cleaner/easier to manage, especially 
since i can give them their own expiration, oh the difficulties of mixing 
different types of data with different company wide SLA"s :P

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