Hi! I just got thinking about backup levels. Our monthly full backup ran longer than usual, an meanwhile the next incremental one got started. The last job of each backup is the bacula catalog, with a priority of 50, as suggested in the example config. Now the catalog job from the full backup (pool monthly) is waiting on the newly scheduled incremental jobs (pool daily)... I could run the catalog at the same priority as the other jobs, but then it probably wouldn't come last, because I run more than one job in parallel. Wouldn't it make sense to prioritize first by the backup level, then by the job priority setting? Would it be possible not to start a job, if it is already running with a higher level, resp. cancel a scheduled job if it is not yet really started and a higher level version gets run? This might be possible with an external scheduler, but it all depends on things the director knows anyway, and I prefer not to need external programs.
While I'm at it: I'd like to have another type of retention policy: prune a differential or incremental job when the higher level job it depends on expires. And why not have multiple differential or incremental levels, like a weekly diff against the monthly full backup and a daily diff against the weekly one, so that a restore would need only three tapes (or sets) instead of all those incremental ones? Just my personal musings - is any of that sensible, or have I gone off the deep end? Should I put up a feature request? MfG, Ulrich -- Heinz Ulrich Stille / Tel.: +49-541-9400473 / Fax: +49-541-9400450 design_d gmbh / Wilhelmstr. 16 / 49076 Osnabrück / www.design-d.de ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
