On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 17:23 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Tuesday 04 July 2006 17:03, Greg Cope, e-DBA Team wrote: > > Is this something to do with spares files? > > Sparse should have nothing to do with hard links. However, it could incur a > good amount of overhead so you should use that option sparsely :-)
Yes I'll review that - I added it for oracle datafiles (that are sparse IIRC). > > Or am I the only person suffering with this? > > I've never seen any problem with hard links other than the 1.38 and older can > sometimes be very slow (in the FD) if you have 10's of thousands of hard > links -- this is fixed in 1.39.x (I think, because I have not personally > tested it). This is an etc dir so few links (less than 100?) > > > > Is it a bug? > > I doubt it. Thinking about it, it might be another issue. This host seems to have had disk issues, and the only files that are there are those that have been used/accessed recently. However I do not seem to have any errors from bacula that it could not get/see the others, which is odd, unless that is all that bacula was shown by the OS. > Unless I missed something (possible), you haven't provided any evidence that > Bacula is *not* backing up hard links. At least you could list a few hard > links that exist on your system, then show that they are not in the list of > files backed up. You might also look at the Support page on the web for what > kind of info to supply in a support request. ok - sorry On a know good system; # ls -la /etc/ | grep init lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Nov 15 2005 init.d -> rc.d/init.d # ls -la /etc/rc.d/init.d/ | head total 492 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 23 09:15 . drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Aug 5 2005 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1128 Mar 16 2005 acpid -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 894 Mar 20 19:09 anacron -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1429 Apr 22 2005 apmd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1176 Apr 8 2005 atd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2784 Feb 6 19:29 auditd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18342 Apr 24 15:26 autofs -rwxr-xr-- 1 root root 1477 Nov 5 2005 bacula-dir The restore; # ls -la /tmp/bacula-restores/etc/ | grep init lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 3 13:20 init.d -> rc.d/init.d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 658 Dec 1 2003 initlog.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jul 3 13:20 rc.sysinit -> rc.d/rc.sysinit Which is good. But; # ls -la /tmp/bacula-restores/etc/rc.d/init.d/ total 28 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 30 15:16 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jun 22 12:08 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1288 Oct 8 2003 dhcpd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10198 Oct 28 2003 functions -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3225 Nov 28 2005 squid Lots of missing files .... > In addition, your fileset below includes only /var/log and /etc, and I would > not expect to find any hard links (or very few) in those two directories. > There may be lots of soft links, but that is a different story. Perhaps you > forgot to include / ? I only want these dirs, as from here I can rebuild a host and get it's state (roughly) and config. Sorry - I think the issue is different - see above. Thanks. Greg Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
