Hello, I saw your previous post, but it is the kind of question that I leave to the list to answer.
On Friday 12 August 2005 17:05, Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: > 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. -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
