Re: [Bacula-users] Preventing auto-escalation

[John D. <dre...@gm...>]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Gregg A. Discenza <gdi...@ca...> wrote:
> I have an autoloader with a LTO-3 drive as well as a DAT72 drive attached to
>  my bacula server.
>
>  I am trying to schedule differential backups onto the DAT72 drive to be
>  taken offsite daily, but for some reason bacula insists on doing an initial
>  full backup (which won't fit on a single tape) onto the DAT72, even though a
>  full backup of the same file set has been written to the LTO-3 the day
>  before.
>
>  Is there any way to prevent this auto-escalation of a defined differential
>  job to a full job?
>
>  I'm already writing a differential to the autoloader every night for
>  standard restores, the DAT72 tape is for bare metal disaster recovery.
>
Are you using 1 job for both devices or more than 1?

John