[Bacula-users] Observation about pools and backup upgrading.

[Graham P. <gr...@ws...>]

I think this is probably for Kern.

You may have addressed this in 1.33 but I can't find the email train.
However, I feel this has been discussed before.

I have 3 pools defined for Full, Differential and Incremental backups.
Incremental backups are done daily, differentials weekly and full
monthly to the respective pool. These are backed up to files.

I had to change a fileset last week and so the backup was upgraded from
inc to full However, it still went to the incremental pool. I wasn't
concerned at the time but of course, I have just realised that as the
Inc pool is recycled weekly, that tonight the full backup would have
been overwritten by this weeks incremental backup.

I forced a manual full backup to the Full pool today.

I guess this is expected behaviour even if its not what I wanted.
Have/Are you intending to link pools to type more strongly so Bacula
knows if it has to upgrade a backup it also knows to change pools?

Graham
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