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Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups stacking up behind long-running job

2017-02-08 10:56:01
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups stacking up behind long-running job
From: Philipp Wagner <mailing AT phiwa DOT eu>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 16:54:59 +0100
Hello,

thanks for your fast response.
Question is answered, problem should be solved - perfect!

Best regards,
Philipp


Am 08.02.2017 um 14:05 schrieb Kern Sibbald:
> Hello,
>
> I confirm that the Allow Duplicate Jobs patch is and has been for some 
> time in Bacula.
>
> Best regards,
> Kern
>
> On 02/08/2017 01:36 PM, Thomas Lohman wrote:
>>> One of the queued backups is the next incremental backup of "archive".
>>> My expectation was that the incremental backup would run only some hours
>>> after the full backup finishes, so the difference is really small and it
>>> only takes some minutes and only requires a small amount of tape
>>> storage. The problem now is that bacula does its check if there already
>>> is a full backup of "archive" available when adding the job to the queue
>>> and not when running it. Since the full backup has not been finished
>>> yet, there is none and bacula turns the second incremental backup (and
>>> probably the third one) into a full backup as well.
>>>
>>> I'm currently running bacula 5.2.6, so my question is if anybody knows
>>> a solution to this problem (apart from manually cancelling the queued
>>> incremental jobs) or if an upgrade to bacula 7 might solve the problem.
>>> The upgrade to 7.4 is planned for the future already.
>> I believe that the problem that you're describing is the same one I had
>> a number of years ago when running 5.2.x.  I had fixed it and submitted
>> a patch I believe.  So my guess is that this should now be fixed and
>> should not be an issue in 7.4.x.
>>
>> http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1882
>>
>> In addition, there are options to cancel new jobs if there are already
>> running jobs, etc.  Please see the following job options
>>
>>     Allow Duplicate Jobs = yes/no
>>     Cancel Lower Level Duplicates = yes/no
>>     Cancel Queued Duplicates = yes/no
>>     Cancel Running Duplicates = yes/no
>>
>>
>> --tom
>>
>>
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