On Tuesday 08 September 2009 16:37:42 Gavin McCullagh wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 08 Sep 2009, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > I think I now understand what you are asking for. You want to have > > Incremental Jobs go forward in time from a Full (current behavior) and > > incremental (decremental) jobs that go backward in time. Those reverse > > incremental jobs would be something synthesized from the Full in question > > and a previous Full. The reason is that this would allow one Full to > > cover twice the period of time that it does currently (give the > > appropriate incrementals are available). > > > > Is that correct? > > Pretty much. Though I would note that the last sentence possibly needs > clarification. As with regular incrementals, you can build up several over > time allowing the oldest full backup to cover many previous periods of time > (in combination with the appropriate sequential series of "decremantals"). > > Hopefully that clarification doesn't change anything much.
No, that was included already in my understanding ... > > > If my understanding of what you are proposing is correct, then yes, I > > think it is possible. The next questions are: is it something we want to > > implemement? how big of a project is it? who would implement it? when? > > > > I don't have any answer for the above, except I imagine that it is not at > > all a small project. > > Of course. I guess I might write up a proposal and if it's deemed too much > work, too little benefit or some combination of those, it will presumably > be either long-fingered or refused for those reasons. For the most part, this is not up to me. I generally only refuse projects that seem impossible or go completely against Bacula's philosophy, and that is not the case here. Otherwise, projects are voted on by the users and to a very large extent the voting priority determines what is implemented. There are some exceptions, such as funded development where the implementation of a particular feature can be accellerated ... Best regards, Kern > > Thanks for your patience :-) > > Gavin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
