On Thursday 26 March 2009 09:47:18 Graham Keeling wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 06:38:19PM +0100, Ulrich Leodolter wrote: > > Hello, > > > > below u can see VirtualFull backup job log and mysql job entry. > > > > can someone explain why "Start time" and "End Time" are copied > > from last incremental backup ? > > I believe the idea is that a VirtualFull turns the last Incremental into > a Full, on which you can base new Differentials and Incrementals. > > The dates then represent the dates at which files were actually backed up, > rather than the dates at which the VirtualFull ran. Which makes a certain > kind of sense, since all the code doing restores (for example) looks at the > dates to decide what files to select. > But I might be wrong. :) > >
Yes, this is correct. If we set the date to the actual current Job run time, then there would be a "hole" in the backup timing, and the next incremental backup would not backup files changed since the last incremental included the Virtual Full ... Example: Full -- day 1 Incremental -- day 2 Virtual Full -- day 10 Now you do not want the next incremental to start backing up from "day 10" but you want it to backup from "day 2". Regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
