Hello, Is there a *simple* way how I could force the next scheduled job to be upgraded from incremental or differential to level full?
My goal is to manually change a tape at a suitable time (day when either I or someone else able to do that happens to be nearby etc, so *not* on any exact preset schedule), and I'd like to have the first job on each tape to be forced to be a full backup. Yes, scheduling manually an extra full backup manually is an alternative (actually, the only one I know so far), but that would require plenty of additional "unnecessary" typing of backup time etc, which obviously have to be given in full format (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS... since it could not be run immediately). It would sound nicer for an occasional tape-changer-operator to give a simple commands without the need of thinking too much: - release - <change the tape physically> - mount - <upgrade to full> Basically, I guess this could be possible. Is there any harmless console command that would have a side effect of "breaking" the test required for making incremental or differential backups? According to manual, any (cosmetic) change to filesets would do this, but simply eg. reloading the director conf where the filesets are defined (it would be a harmlessa simple command) obviously doesn't do it? I tried to investigate the "run before job" and "run after job" job options. Making the latter return non-zero, that job would be marked as failed and the next backup obviously would be upgraded. But this would be only the second job run onto the new tape. Making "run before job" to fail instead, seems to have the actual job not run at all, so it isn't a solution either... :-( -- TiN ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
