Re: [Bacula-users] Incrementals are upgraded to Full

[Alan B. <aj...@ms...>]

On Mon, 9 May 2005, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

> I am new to Bacula so consider this an idea to look at, not a
> definitive answer to do.  If this were my problem, I'd look at the
> retention of jobs.  If the last full backup is purged before doing the
> last incremental in the week, I would expect the incremental to be
> upgraded to a full backup, because there is no longer any record of
> a full backup.

The problem is not that the backup got upgraded to a full or differential one.

The problem is that the full or differential backup happens in the 
incremental pool - and if separate pools are used, the incremental pool is 
usually tiny by comparison to the full one.

As an example, one of my backup sets has 6 terabytes allocated per full 
backup cycle, but only a few hundred Mb for incrementals because the data 
is mostly static/appending star observation image sets , rather than 
highly dynamic items like databases.

AB