Hi everybody,
I would say to Kevin that if the pool for full and diff is the same jpbs 
can run concurrently even with w single drive. About the problem of Himie, 
bacause he want a different behaviour each weekend, he should make 
different schedules based on the week number in the year:

Schedule {
  Name = "1stFridayFull"
  Run = Full 1st fri at 22:05 weeks 0,4,8,12,16......
  Run = Differential 2nd-5th sat at 22:05 weeks 
1,2,3,5,6,9,10,11,13,14,15..........
  Run = Incremental sun-thu at 22:05
}
It is a little boring to write it, but it should work.

There is a problem for each solution.

Regards


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Da:     Kevin Keane <subscript...@kkeane.com>
Per:    "bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net" 
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Data:   25/04/2011 22.28
Oggetto:        Re: [Bacula-users] friday vs saturday



Yes, you are right. I was trying to say that based on what you wrote, you 
might be able to accomplish the same thing a different way. I don't have 
an answer for your exact question, just trying to help.

Here is my thinking:

The point is that as long as there is a full backup on Friday, none of 
your diff backups will run on Saturday anyway - your tape drive is still 
busy with the Friday backup.

You have machine 1, machine 2, machine 3 and machine 4 to back up. You 
want a full backup to happen once per month on a Friday, and a 
differential backup of all the other machines on a Saturday. But unless 
you have multiple volumes (or allow concurrent backups), that schedule is 
not going to happen in the first place - the backups all execute 
consecutively.

So according to your plan, you schedule a full backup of Machine 1 on the 
first Friday 22:05, and a diff backup of machines 2, 3 and 4 on Saturday 
22:05. What's really going to happen is that the backup for Machine 1 
takes, say, 30 hours. So the diff backup for Machine 2 actually starts on 
Sunday morning, 4 AM. The diff backup takes 12 hours. So Machine 3's diff 
backup doesn't even start until Sunday afternoon.

And that's true regardless of whether your schedule calls for Saturday 
22:05 PM, or Friday, 22:10 PM. So there really is no reason to schedule on 
the Saturday in the first place.

Again, concurrency could throw a monkeywrench into that plan (although I 
think priorities should still keep it working the same way)

Kevin Keane
The NetTech
(North County Tech Center, LLC dba The NetTech)
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-----Original Message-----
From: hymie! [mailto:hy...@lactose.homelinux.net] 
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 12:03 PM
To: Kevin Keane
Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net; hy...@lactose.homelinux.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] friday vs saturday


Kevin Keane writes:
>How is your concurrency configured? If you only have one concurrent 
>job, the a ctual dates you have in your schedule aren't related to 
>reality in the first p lace. If that is your configuration, your 
>backups aren't going to run on Satur day anyway, but on Sunday or 
>whenever the full backups are finished. That mean s that the exact time 
>you schedule the differentials doesn't matter. Just sche dule them to 
>start five minutes after the fulls (at 22:10), and with a lower p 
riority.

I think you missed the point of my question.  That's probably my fault, 
for being too verbose.

But my question was, how do I
* schedule a full backup on a specific Friday
* schedule differential backups on Saturdays
* * but not the day immediately after a full backup ?

>-----Original Message-----
>From: hymie! [mailto:hy...@lactose.homelinux.net]
>Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 9:43 AM
>To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: [Bacula-users] friday vs saturday
>
>
>So I have four machines whose full backups take more than 24 hours.
>As an additional problem, one of those 4 machines takes 12 hours just 
>to do an  Incremental/Differential backup.  (The full backup takes 43
>hours.)
>
>I had the idea that I would assign each machine its own Friday to do a 
>full ba ckup, where no other backups would take place.  Then on 
>Saturday, each of the machines that didn't just do a full backup would 
>do a Differential backup.  Fi nally, incrementals the rest of the week.
>
>I was just about to set up schedules for these boxes that look 
>something like
>this:
>
>Schedule {
>  Name = "1stFridayFull"
>  Run = Full 1st fri at 22:05
>  Run = Differential 2nd-5th sat at 22:05
>  Run = Incremental sun-thu at 22:05
>}
>Schedule {
>  Name = "2ndFridayFull"
>  Run = Full 2nd fri at 22:05
>  Run = Differential 1st sat at 22:05
>  Run = Differential 3nd-5th sat at 22:05
>  Run = Incremental sun-thu at 22:05
>}
>
>But then I realized -- sometimes, the day after the 1st Friday is the 
>2nd Satu rday.
>
>(caution: monospaced font ahead)
>    October 2011 
>Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
>                   1
> 2  3  4  5  6  7  8
> 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
>16 17 18 19 20 21 22
>23 24 25 26 27 28 29
>30 31
>
>So it seems that, on Fri 7 October, my 1stFriFull machine will do a 
>full backu p; on Sat 8 October, that same machine will do a Differential 
backup.
>
>Meanwhile, my 2ndFriFull machine will do a Differential on Sat 1 
>October, incr ementals during the week, nothing at all on the 7th or 
>8th, more incrementals,  before finally doing a Full backup on the 
14th...
>again followed immediately by a Differential backup on the 15th.
>
>Is there a way to avoid this problem and accomplish what I want to 
accomplish?
>  The only thing that comes to mind is with unusual time math, such as 
>schedul eing my Differential backups for Friday at 46:05; but I doubt 
>that Bacula supp orts this.
>
>--hymie!    http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie 
hy...@lactose.homelinux.net
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