Re: VirtualFull error

Arno Lehmann via Bacula-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.bacula.user
Organization IT-Service Arno Lehmann
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi all,

Am 13.11.2025 um 01:04 schrieb Thomas Lohman:
> Hi,
> 
> I've seen this happen a few times in our current configuration/setup.  
> It basically means that a volume contains two backups that are required 
> to create the new Full. For example, depending on the specifics of your 
> configuration, there is a possibility that you may get a restore 
> sequence like this:
> 
> Volume A - Last Full
> Volume X - Differential
> Volume Y - Incremental
> Volume X - Incremental
> 
> It needs Volume X to get the last Differential but also the last 
> Incremental.  Two "solutions" that don't involve configuration changes 
> are to either do a real Full and not a Virtual or remove the last 
> Incremental job and lose those most recent changes.  You can always fire 
> off a new Incremental immediately after the Virtual Full finishes and 
> that will capture those changes.

This is a condition that, as far as I know, is being worked on by the 
developers. Surprisingly tricky, it seems -- and it may be useful to 
report the issue on gitlab.bacula.org just to make sure nobody loses 
track of it :-)

Cheers,

Arno

-- 
Arno Lehmann

IT-Service Lehmann
Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück



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