According to your configuration, the job will consolidate only if there are at least 9 incremental backups and at least 2 of them are more than 7 days old. If you have just started with this client, the initial incremental backup is actually a full and is treated as such. So in that case there must be at least 10 incremental backups (9 plus the initial 'full') and at least 3 of them (2 plus the initial 'full') must be more than 7 days old.
Per your configuration an incremental is not eligible to be consolidated unless it is more than 7 days old and there are at least 7 more recent backups. If you have 8 incrementals, each 1 day apart, then only 1 is eligible for consolidation, which is meaningless. So with 9 incrementals there will be 2 that are eligible for consolidation, which is the smallest meaningful number. As an aside ... there is no hard and fast rule for how often you need to run a Consolidate job. I schedule mine every 4 days, for a bunch of reasons that are specific to my environment. Running it weekly might be more appropriate for other setups. I can't think of a good reason to run it daily. I hope that helps. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bareos-users@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
