Is anyone working on a Virtual Differential feature? Consider the following jobs in chronological order:
A - Full B - Incremental C - Incremental D - Differential E - Incremental F - Incremental I would like to create a Virtual Differential which was an accumulation of D+E+F and would be equivalent to a Differential job run at F. There was some discussion on this around 2008 but it doesn't appear to have gone anywhere. A virtual incremental feature would be nifty too, eg given these backups: A - Full B - Incremental C - Incremental D - Incremental E - Incremental F - Incremental G - Incremental I would like to be able to create a virtual incremental rollup for B-E. I think this would only work if B, C, D, and E were then deleted afterwards though or Bacula might get confused about which jobs to select on a restore. My ultimate goal would be to be able to specify retention policies, eg: Hourly restore points for the last 7 days Daily restore points for the last 4 weeks, based on Fridays Monthly restore points for the last 12 months, based on the 31st of the month Yearly restore points for the last 7 years, based on June 30 (our financial year starts July 1) And then just have Bacula figure out how to make it work, scheduling virtual consolidate jobs as required. Thanks James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
