Re: [Bacula-users] A minor puzzle

[Arno L. <al...@it...>]

Hi Phil, all,

Am 01.03.2026 um 18:02 schrieb Phil Stracchino:
> These are the enabled jobs from my schedules:
> 
> # Standard client schedule
> Schedule {
>    Name = "Monthly Rotation"
>    Run = Full 1st mon at 04:30
>    Run = Differential 2nd-5th mon at 04:30
>    Run = Incremental tue-sun at 04:30
> }
> 
> # Catalog backup schedule
> Schedule {
>    Name = "Catalog"
>    Run = Full 1st mon at 04:55
>    Run = Differential 2nd-5th mon at 04:55
>    Run = Incremental tue-sun at 04:55
> }
> 
> # Full backup archive schedule
> Schedule {
>    Name = "Full Backup Archive"
>    Run = Full 1st mon at 10:00
> }
> 
> Schedule {
>    Name = "Volume Cleanup"
>    Run = Full mon at 03:10
> }
> 
> 
> 
> There *should* have been a set of incremental backups this morning 
> starting at 04:30.

No.

1st Monday meens "the Monday in the first week of the month".

A week always starts with a Monday and ends with a Sunday in Bacula.

First week this month only consisted of a Sunday.

You can schedule, for example "Run = Level=Full Monday 1-7 at 4:30".

Or just use the seconds week Monday.

Similar considerations apply for the last Sunday, Saturday, etc. in a 
month but there's no really good solution for that.

Cheers,

Arno

>  But they never ran.  This is the tail of the log:
> 
> 28-Feb 04:56 minbar-dir JobId 4982: Begin pruning Jobs older than 12 
> months .
> 28-Feb 04:56 minbar-dir JobId 4982: No Jobs found to prune.
> 28-Feb 04:56 minbar-dir JobId 4982: Begin pruning Files.
> 28-Feb 04:57 minbar-dir JobId 4982: Pruned Files from 1 Jobs for client 
> minbar from catalog.
> 28-Feb 04:57 minbar-dir JobId 4982: End auto prune.
> 
> 01-Mar 10:26 minbar-dir JobId 0: Max configured use duration=82,800 sec. 
> exceeded. Marking Volume "FULL-20260202-04:30" as Used.
> 
> 
> I've had times before when a nightly incremental just didn't run, for no 
> reason I could discern.  I haven't really paid attention to whether it 
> consistently happens on specific *days*.  The console shows the backups 
> yesterday morning as the last executed, and the Full backups tomorrow 
> morning as the next scheduled.
> 
> Does anyone see anything wrong in my schedules?
> 
> 
> 

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Arno Lehmann

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