Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically cancel differential jobs but not full jobs

[Arno L. <al...@it...>]

Hello,

after thinking a while and looking through the list and bugs.bacula.org 
because I was sure I saw something like that recently...

I think you've got some sort of feature request. See bug 307.

Arno

Alexander Bergolth wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I'm doing a full backup once a week and a differential backup on the 
> other days. Differential jobs are backed up to a daily-tape-pool, full 
> jobs are saved to a weekly pool.
> As the tapes sometimes are not changed in time, the jobs may have to 
> wait for insertation of the right tape. To avoid having multiple same 
> differential jobs in the waiting queue, I've set "Max Run Time" and "Max 
> Start Delay" to 10h. However, this also results in cancelation of the 
> full backup jobs, if the correct tape for the full-backup wasn't 
> inserted in time.
> 
> Is there a way to avoid having multiple jobs of the same kind queue up 
> without loosing full-level jobs? I've tried "Rerun Failed Levels", 
> hoping that the next differential jobs backup-level would be upgraded to 
> "full" but this doesn't seem to work for jobs that were canceled because 
>  of wait-timeouts.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> --leo

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