Please always copy the list. On Wednesday 02 August 2006 17:09, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 04:08:45PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > > Yes, the run command was intended to clone jobs. However, the above seems to > > me to be lacking a few options so may not produce a true clone (i.e. > > identical backups). Please take a look at the editing options that allow you > > to set critical items such as the since time to be identical to the job that > > is submitting the run command. If I am not mistaken, the manual has some > > examples. > > > > Hi Ken, > > thanks for your reply, too ;) The documentation gives the following > example: > > run = "Nightly-backup level=%s since=\"%s\" storage=DDS-4" > > However, I only want to clone full backups once a week to the tape > library when a client is due for a full backup, so would I need the > "since" keyword in the run statement, too?
Probably not. > > Do you know wether the clone method would run the same backup twice, > doubling both network and server load, or would the copy be cloned > locally on the backup server? It runs two separate jobs, so the backups will be done at the same time each transmitting its data to the appropriate SD and will resulting backed up data be essentially the same but not bit for bit identical. > > Cheers & all the best, 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
