Hi Kern,

thanx for your reply. i see these options are not supported, so
it seems my idea cannot be realized... anyway, have you read
my other post and got my idea ? if i am right than my concept would
minimze data loss about 50% in case of a burn down. for me that
seems to be a too great deal not to try to realize it. or am fighting against
windmills here and there is an easier way to do it ? i would love
to hear about it, please...


best regards,
philipp



Kern Sibbald wrote:

On Friday 12 August 2005 16:05, Philipp Steinkrueger wrote:
Hi all,


as my post about backup strategy and concepts from the 5th
is still unanswered, i am trying to break down my, i have to
admit, long question.

i think all i need to do what i want is a possibility to tell
bacula to do differential backups against a specific full
backup and not against the latest.

i can image two ways how one could tell bacula to do
something like this:

1) give a parameter in the run command, which refers to
the full backup against the differential backup should be made.

2) give bacula a general option, which says: always make
differential backups against the latest _available_ full backup.
so if the latest full backup is not in the autochanger, bacula
should make the differential against the latest full backup, which
_is_ in the autochanger.


this is getting long again, so i'll stop. let me point to my post
from the 5th
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.general/15519)
where i asked the list for comments about a specific backup concept.

Neither of these options are supported, and it isn't likely they will be since the data structures only register that a backup is a Differential and not it is a "Differential that applies to such and such Full backup".

You might be able to come up with a clever scheme of having two different Job definitions (different names of course) that backup the same client. Then you might carefully select what job you want to run based on your own criteria given above, and thus which last Full you want use.





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