Hello, I confirm that the Allow Duplicate Jobs patch is and has been for some time in Bacula.
Best regards, Kern On 02/08/2017 01:36 PM, Thomas Lohman wrote: >> One of the queued backups is the next incremental backup of "archive". >> My expectation was that the incremental backup would run only some hours >> after the full backup finishes, so the difference is really small and it >> only takes some minutes and only requires a small amount of tape >> storage. The problem now is that bacula does its check if there already >> is a full backup of "archive" available when adding the job to the queue >> and not when running it. Since the full backup has not been finished >> yet, there is none and bacula turns the second incremental backup (and >> probably the third one) into a full backup as well. >> >> I'm currently running bacula 5.2.6, so my question is if anybody knows >> a solution to this problem (apart from manually cancelling the queued >> incremental jobs) or if an upgrade to bacula 7 might solve the problem. >> The upgrade to 7.4 is planned for the future already. > I believe that the problem that you're describing is the same one I had > a number of years ago when running 5.2.x. I had fixed it and submitted > a patch I believe. So my guess is that this should now be fixed and > should not be an issue in 7.4.x. > > http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1882 > > In addition, there are options to cancel new jobs if there are already > running jobs, etc. Please see the following job options > > Allow Duplicate Jobs = yes/no > Cancel Lower Level Duplicates = yes/no > Cancel Queued Duplicates = yes/no > Cancel Running Duplicates = yes/no > > > --tom > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
