Re: [Bacula-users] Full job copied to a secondary location where it was marked as incremental

[Martin S. <ma...@li...>]

>>>>> On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 16:36:23 +0100, Josip Deanovic said:
> 
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I have observed something related to copying jobs I found strange
> and I would like to hear what other people have to say about it.
> 
> 
> I have recycled one volume containing a full backup of some job.
> After that I have manually run that job and bacula automatically
> promoted a job from incremental to full job because there were no
> previous full jobs available and the job finished successfully.
> 
> After that I have run copy job using SQLQuery selection type and
> the selection pattern I am using correctly found the latest full
> backup of the job in question.
> 
> The copy of the job run successfully and everything is fine with
> the entries in the database. The copy of the job is going to the
> secondary location and naturally there is additional bunch of
> volumes (actually files since I am using file storage).
> 
> However, few weeks later I have used bls tool on the volumes in
> the secondary location (place where copied jobs go) and I have
> found that unlike the original job in the volume on the primary
> backup location, the volume in the secondary backup location showed
> an entry which indicated that the copied job was incremental instead
> of full.
> 
> Database entries are fine as well as the bls list of the volume
> from the primary backup location.
> 
> 
> Is there a theory that could explain why is the copy of the full
> backup job copied to the secondary location marked as incremental
> copy inside the volume while the original job is marked as full in
> the volume on the primary backup location as well as in the database?
> 
> Normally this job in the volume on the secondary location should
> be marked as full as it is the case with other such jobs.

It is similar for my copy jobs (though the level is Differential instead of
Incremental), so it looks like a bug worth reporting at
http://bugs.bacula.org/.

I see that it also showed "Diff" in the output of "status dir" when running
the copy job.

FWIW, Differential is the Level in my JobDefs.

__Martin