[Bacula-users] Inc/Diff not being upgraded to full after cancel

[Eric Peterson]

Hi,

I'm using 1.36.3-2 on Debian Etch and I'm using hard drive volumes rather than tapes for backups.

I have seperate Full, Differential and Incremental pools for each client.  Fulls run on the first Sunday of every month, diffs on every sunday after, and incrementals every other day of the week.

This month the backups were waiting on a delayed job and so I had to cancel them so they wouldn't interfere with the day's normal operations.

I thought Bacula would upgrade the next Incremental job to a Full for all clients whose backups were canceled.  I was surprised to see that they weren't so I thought they were using the previous Full/Diff backup as a reference point.

Well I've been swamped and I am just now doing some restores for data integrity checking.  When I select option 5 for the most recent backup it loads a number of volumes and gives me the file tree to search through.  I was shocked to find that many files/directories were missing from the backups.  If I had to depend on these backups, I would be SOL.  Thankfully, I have a backup for the backup.

My Fileset includes / and two other non standard paritions.  For example, /home, /etc, and others were all missing from one client's backup.  Another client's backup was missing parts of these directories.  On yet another client, I selected / as the directory I wanted to restore.  It did so but the directory I restored to was empty.

Am I missing something here?  This is all very scary to me so hopefully you can tell me I'm an idiot and that I'm doing something wrong and my data is really there.

Thanks,
Eric