On 13.10.2010 18:21, Hugo Letemplier wrote:
> Hi,
> I have an important question that will help me validating some specs
> about bacula 5.0.2
> Imagine the following scenario:
> 1 - a full
> 2 - an incremental
> 3 - an incremental
> 4 - another incremental
> 
> if I delete the incremental of step 3, does it move the files that
> have been added during step "3" onto the incremental of step "4"
> 
> I have tried this scenario but my result is not clear. Can you tell me
> your experience ?
> 
> In other words: can I delete one Incremental without deleting more
> recents incrementals or if I delete the full does it upgrade the first
> incremental into full ?
> 

I *think* Bacula uses timestamps when doing incrementals. if you delete
one incremental, you lose the files modified/created for that day.

But if you delete the full, Bacula "upgrades" the next incremental to
Full, as it finds no suitable Full to do the incremental for.


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