Hi Dan ! Interesting ! Could you post a copy of your AI settings & schedules ?
Thank you ! On Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 2:14:50 PM UTC+1, Dan wrote: > > > > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/02737af2-a828-4f46-b417-b00f071d31e1%40googlegroups.com.
