Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestion for a new feature

[Lamp Zy <la...@gm...>]

On 10/07/2010 01:34 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On 10/07/10 13:40, Lamp Zy wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It will be great (at least for me :-) ) when Bacula looks for previous
>> Full backup on a brand new client to also check if a Full backup is
>> currently running.
>>
>> We do Incr. backups M-F at night and they use tapes from IncrTapes pool.
>> Full backups use tapes from the FullTapes pool. When I add a new client
>> sometimes I run the Full backup manually to avoid Bacula changing tapes
>> in the middle of the night.
>>
>> The problem is that when my manually ran Full backup takes longer then I
>> expected and overlaps with the regularly scheduled Incr backups. Then
>> Bacula runs the Incr. backup for my new system and because it can't find
>> a previous Full backup it changes it from Incr to Full.
>>
>> But, the Full backup is already running. It just hasn't finished yet.
>> So, at the end, I end up with two Full backups for the same system.
>
> Peter,
> This is a solved problem.  The following two existing directives added
> to your JobDefs or Job resource will take care of this for you:
>
> Allow Duplicate Jobs = no
> Cancel Queued Duplicates = yes
>

Thanks a lot Phil.

--
Peter