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Re: [Networker] Group wants to run a full?
2010-02-28 03:29:23
George Sinclair wrote:
I have a tape pool that I turned off indexing on (Store index
entries=No). Also, selected the 'No index save' option for the group. I
then ran a full on the group. It completed just dandy. I then ran an
incremental estimate on the backup server as:
savegrp -n -l incr group
and it reports that no full backups of this save set were found in the
mediadatabase; performing a full backup. However, I can query the media
database, and it reports the save set (no spelling mistakes).
Isn't an incremental based on the last media database entry, not the
CFI? Something seems odd here:
Think about this a minute George.
Running an incremental requires that the server knows the details of
each file that was backed up in the full, thus you MUST have a CFI
available. If you turn off indexing you simply cannot do incrementals or
level backups.
Why would you do this anyway? You might save a miniscule amount of disk
space but disk is cheap these days. The saving is hardly worth it when
you consider the cost to your employer of your time to micro-manage
this. If I was you I would just turn the indexing back on and stop
worrying about it.
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