[Bacula-users] schedule times feature request

[Matthias W. <bac...@il...>]

hello kern,

another feature request:

at the moment schedule times just can be defined
as day of week/month and so on. 
what does not work is: 
make a full backup every (approximately) 2 weeks.
reason for this: if i do not want to define schedule times
for each client separately, i have a full backup run
for all clients at the same time and therefor need a lot of
tapes. but if bacula could make some kind of calculation
each day before it plans the backup jobs (information
about full, incremental, ... jobs per client is still 
in the database) it could take a bit care of not running
all backup jobs the same night.
yes i always compare with amanda, but this is what amanda
does nearly perfectly. amamanda goes further: it calls the client
to calculate his backup size and afterwards decides which clients
to take into next backup run. i think for bacula it would
be enough to lookup the database, cause most of the servers
and clients in production use dont change significantly in size
of their backup (is my experience)

and a question:

i cannot use bacula for production in its 1.29 release
and im thinking of getting 1.30b for production (if tests
not fail). currently i am using some cvs snapshot from 20030411
and it works just fine.
the question is: what do you think how often there
will be incompatibility arise between old clients and new
server? (like the actual code changes between 1.29 and 1.30)

best regards, matthias wamser
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