Re: [Bacula-users] Repeating FULL backup

[James W. <jam...@ua...>]

On 2011-03-11, at 12:03 PM, Thomas Eriksson wrote:

> 
> 
> On 03/11/2011 08:52 AM, jeffrey Lang wrote:
>> Mike
>> 
>>  yes, there are options for managing this, they are:
>> 
>>        Allow Duplicate Jobs = no
>>        Cancel Lower Level Duplicates = yes
>>        Cancel Queued Duplicates = yes
>>        Cancel Running Duplicates = no
>> 
>> These are available in the 5.0.X bacula code.
>> 
>> jeff
>> 
> 
> Sorry for using someone else's thread, but I'd like to make a comment
> on this.
> 
> The default value for all the values mentioned by Jeff above is "no".
> According to the 5.0.3 manual and an explanatory figure (17.2), that
> should lead to that a duplicate job always gets canceled.
> 
> In my experience, that is not what happens.
> 
> My Full backup takes 36 hours, and the next days Incremental job always
> gets queued up.
> 
> 
> 	Thomas


Hello Thomas,


I can't speak from experience about how the defaults act. I tend to explicitly state what options are even if they are the defaults. 

In my experience using the options
Allow Duplicate Jobs = no
Cancel Lower Level Duplicates = yes

the flow chart depicted in figure 17.2 properly reflects what happens in my environment.

James