On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 09:33:13AM +0200, Hugo Letemplier wrote: > Hi thanks a lot for your answers > > I have retried with a new test scenario its clear now and deleting an > incremental is really dangerous. > But I think that a function that enable the administrator to "join" 2 jobs > would be cool. > Imagine that one day lots of data manipulation are done on the machine that I > want to backup, so there is a great difference between 2 incremental. The > jobs are done, and deleting one job is dangerous for the jobs that follows > In this case, that would be great to mix 2 jobs. > Its quite complicated to explain I know. > Take a look at this little scenario, a classical Full with his incremental > jobs : the client is typically a big file server > > 1 - The full > 2 - an incremental > 3 - someone make a mistake while he was exploring the file server he made > lots of copy of files in the server (for example : a bad drag and drop). > 4 - a nightly scheduled incremental > 5 - the administrator see that the last incremental got a lot of new files > and that job bytes got a huge value. > 5 - the user see his error and deletes the duplicates > 6 - a new incremental is ran > 7 - after checking everything, I want to reduce the size of my backups by > "fusioning" the two last incrementals. The idea is to add new files of step 4 > to step 6 but without the files deleted at step 6 > > In a mathematical view, it can be seen like that : Inc6.1 = Inc4 - (Files of > Inc4 deleted at Inc6.0) + (new files of inc6.0) + (crush files modified > after Inc4 with their version of inc6.0) > > I hope that it can be understood more easily than the previous post !
Perhaps a VirtualFull backup is what you are looking for? > Thanks a lot > > Hugo > > Le 13 oct. 2010 à 17:53, Jari Fredriksson a écrit : > > > 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. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports > > standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. > > Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great > > experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb > > _______________________________________________ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download new Adobe(R) Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 > The new Adobe(R) Flex(R) 4 and Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 (formerly > Flex(R) Builder(TM)) enable the development of rich applications that run > across multiple browsers and platforms. Download your free trials today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download new Adobe(R) Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 The new Adobe(R) Flex(R) 4 and Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 (formerly Flex(R) Builder(TM)) enable the development of rich applications that run across multiple browsers and platforms. Download your free trials today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
