> my JobDef for Always Incremental is: > Accurate = yes > Always Incremental = yes > Always Incremental Job Retention = 7 days > Always Incremental Keep Number = 14 > Always Incremental Max Full Age = 14 days
Jens - "Always Incremental Keep Number = 14" is the culprit. That value should always be set less than or equal to "Always Incremental Job Retention", at least when you are backing up once per day. Think of "Always Incremental Keep Number" as the minimum number of Incremental backups you want to retain in the event one or more of the daily backups fails to run. As an aside, think about why you are running consolidation every day. My inclination would be to run it once a week, or maybe once every 2 weeks. One reason that I can think of to run it more often is if you want to spread out the load of doing many client Full consolidations on the same day. In that case you can set "Max Full Consolidations" to some subset of your clients and run the consolidate more frequently. Again by example ... if you have 12 clients and want to limit the number of Full consolidations to 3, then you can run consolidation every 4 days and each client will consolidate its full backup every 4th consolidation cycle (every 16 days). This is actually the way I'm configured because I offsite my backups every day and didn't want the network load of consolidating all of the Full backups on the same day. Note that, per my previous post, I have "Always Incremental Job Retention = 7 days" and "Always Incremental Max Full Age = 21 days", which results in eligibility for a Full consolidation every 14 days. I chose a 4 day interval on my consolidations because at the 3rd interval (12 days) the Full won't run and at the 4th interval (16 days) the Full will run. This guarantees that Bareos won't keep doing Full consolidations on the same 3 clients, leaving the other 9 clients with unlimited Incrementals. Sorry for the unsolicited opinion there. I just haven't yet seen a good justification for performing daily Consolidations. Dan -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
