Re: A minor puzzle

Phil Stracchino <[email protected]> Mon, 2 Mar 2026 11:41:17 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.bacula.user
Organization Fenian House Publishing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 3/2/26 11:23, Marcin Haba wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2026 at 16:59, Phil Stracchino <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> The *problem* is that yesterday, *SUNDAY* March 1, the Incrementals that
>> *should* have run, that run *every* Tuesday through Sunday, didn't.
>> That's what I'm trying to find an explanation for.
> 
> Hello Phil,
> 
> You can test your schedule in bconsole. For example like this:
> 
> status schedule="Monthly Rotation" time="2026-03-01 00:00:00"
> 
> Is your missing incremental backup listed there? If it is, then with
> your Bacula schedule setting is everything fine but it can mean an
> other problem (or a bug). If it is not listed, then it can mean that
> something is wrong with the schedule configuration.


And indeed...


babylon5:alaric:~:1 $ bconsole
Connecting to Director minbar:9101
1000 OK: 10002 minbar-dir Version: 15.0.3 (25 March 2025)
Enter a period to cancel a command.
*status schedule="Monthly Rotation" time="2026-03-01 00:00:00"

Scheduled Jobs (50/100):
Level          Type     Pri  Scheduled          Job Name           Schedule
=====================================================================================
Incremental    Backup    18  Sun 01-Mar 04:30   Babylon5 Backup 
Monthly Rotation
Incremental    Backup    18  Sun 01-Mar 04:30   Epsilon3 Backup 
Monthly Rotation
Incremental    Backup    18  Sun 01-Mar 04:30   Minbar Backup 
Monthly Rotation
Incremental    Backup    18  Sun 01-Mar 04:30   Narn Backup 
Monthly Rotation
Incremental    Backup    18  Sun 01-Mar 04:30   Netstore Backup 
Monthly Rotation
Full           Backup    18  Mon 02-Mar 04:30   Babylon5 Backup 
Monthly Rotation
Full           Backup    18  Mon 02-Mar 04:30   Epsilon3 Backup 
Monthly Rotation
Full           Backup    18  Mon 02-Mar 04:30   Minbar Backup 
Monthly Rotation
Full           Backup    18  Mon 02-Mar 04:30   Narn Backup 
Monthly Rotation
Full           Backup    18  Mon 02-Mar 04:30   Netstore Backup 
Monthly Rotation
...
...


There they are.  They SHOULD have fired ... but didn't.  and I'm trying 
to figure out why.



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