Robert Nelson wrote: > Incremental backups are based solely on the modification date of the file. > If the file modification date is later than the last full or differential > backup then the file will be included in the incremental backup. > > Most likely these files have bogus modification dates sometime in the > future. >
This was the issue. These files have done quite a bit of traveling, over AFP, SMB, scp, and rsync, being tar'ed and gzip'ed across several platforms, so I'm not at all surprised that the times are clobbered. Thanks everybody for your help! Adam Compton Network Administrator Sierra Canyon School >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bacula-users- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Compton >> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 9:25 AM >> To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: [Bacula-users] Some files always backed up, even without changes >> >> Hello, >> >> I am having a strange issue with some files always being backed up >> during incremental runs, even if they have not changed since the last >> incremental backup. In particular, I have a working directory of custom >> installer packages for some of the educational software we run here, and >> two of the ~30 package roots are being backed up during each incremental >> job, even though they haven't been touched in the interim. It's fine >> with me that they be backed up during full runs, of course, but having >> them backed up during the daily incrementals is chewing through my >> backup volume like crazy. >> >> This is with the director, file daemon, and storage daemon all running >> on the same machine, and with the storage daemon writing to a file >> volume. The machine is a Gentoo Linux install (uname -a: Linux hercules >> 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 #2 Sat Nov 4 00:09:36 PST 2006 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 >> Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux), and bacula is at version 2.0.0. >> >> I've run both the director and the file daemon at -d200, but I can't >> seem to figure out exactly where these files are selected to be backed >> up (although I can see them being backed up, of course). If anybody has >> any tips for troubleshooting this type of issue, I would really >> appreciate the help. >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> Adam Compton >> Network Administrator >> Sierra Canyon School >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
