I raised this a long time ago but I think it's timely to raise it again,
given hassles we've had over the last few weeks here.

I'll have to point out that our original problems (unable to backup) was a
hardware issue but it's been severely compounded by the decision to have
Bacula escalate jobs from Incremental to Diff or Full (or "no prior job
exists, running full backup") at the time a job is queued to be run
rather than when it starts running.

In a situation where a site is playing catchup and multiple duplicate jobs
exist in the run queue it isn't helpful to have a XYZ full backup running
and then have Bacula decide at next scheduled incremental that a full is
required and escalate that to a Full because the existing one hasn't
finished yet - having Full backups for the same job running back-to-back
isn't "ideal" behaviour.

Can the decision about level escalation be left until a job actually exits
the hold queue & starts running?

Thanks
Alan




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