Hello, we're in the process of migrating our backup infrastructure from Amanda to Bacula running on Debian Linux, and pondering Bacula's schedules the other day, I was wondering if Bacula has a feature similar to Amanda's "bumping" of level 0 dumps or full backups during nightly backups.
Background: Currently, I've scheduled full dumps on the first sunday of every month, with incremental and differential backups on the other days of the month (pretty much the run-of-the mill "weeklyCycle" that Bacula comes with). I'm a bit uncertain about what will happen on the next "first Sunday" and wether Bacula will be able to complete the full dumps of so many hosts in time because ideally, the backup should be finished on all systems on a certain time the following day. So does Bacula support running a level 0 dump "in between when Bacula feels like it", or "if there's still some time left before a certain date / time" or "if the total differential backup of today was smaller than size y" or something similar? Again, please forgive me if I am missing something obvious about Bacula's feature set, maybe something like this is not even necessary once Bacula has a complete level 0 dump on its media because of the catalog feature, or do I have to balance full dumps manually over the weekdays in the cycle? Bye for now & thanks in advance for your time, Uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp, NIONEX GmbH (http://www.nionex.com/) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +49 (0)5241 / 80 10 66 FAX: / 806 23 38 Avenwedder Str. 55, D-33311 Guetersloh, Germany GnuPG KeyID: 5887047D, Fingerprint: 2E1320229A3F63 7F676FE9B1A836A461 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&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
