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From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 7:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] full and incremental backups
To: Süleyman Kuran <skuran AT ayk.gov DOT tr>


On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:56 AM, Süleyman Kuran <skuran AT ayk.gov DOT tr> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I am scheduling montly backups to move to an off-site location in case of a
> disaster. Monthly backup job copies a full backup 1st friday night of every
> month then backups up incremental on the remaining days of month. What I am
> trying to achive is to export a tape cartridge 1 st friday of every month
> before leaving the office containing the full and incrementals backup ups of
> the previous month.  The schedule config is as follows :
>
>
> Schedule {
>   Name = "MultipleRUN"
>   Run = Level=Full Pool=Daily mon-sun at 3:17
>   Run = Level=Full Pool=Weekly sun at 9:05
>   Run = Level=Incremental Pool=Weekly mon-sat at 5:05
>   Run = Level=Full Pool=Monthly 1st fri at 22:05
>   Run = Level=Incremental Pool=Monthly sun-fri at 2:05
> }
>
>
> Now the problem; full and incremental backups are not bound to pools, bacula
> just picks up the last full backup to compare, regardless of the pool when
> preparing for the incremental. When I remove the cartridge out of the
> office, there is a chance that the corresponding full backups are still
> located in the library, and my montly backup is useless without a recent
> full backup.
>
> How can i make sure my monthly backup consists of a full backup and
> incrementals derived from the full on the same media
>

I would do a separate job and schedule for the offline set. This way
the incrementals will work correctly instead of being based on the
daily full backups.

John


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