> Would this be due to the fact that the file retention period is 30 > days + incremental saves only since the (only) full backup 2 months ago ?
I don´t know but if you have a short file retention period and "AutoPrune" set to yes than the fileentries should be dropped at least from the database. I´m not sure what happens if you make a new incremental backup after this time. Maybe the "Jobentry" in the database get an longer lifetime (Job Retetion) and bacula will get the a filedate from this entry and still follow with an incremental one (instead a new full)? If you did not recycle your storage-media in meanwhile the files are maybe still there but you have to restore them 'manually' (without database entry). Greetings, User100 > > Did the full backup get purged ? > > If so, does this mean I have to get a full backup done on a regular > basis ? > > > Sebastian Perkins schrieb: > > > >>Is it possible that you have put the directory to the > destination in a way that the timestemps did not change? > I don't quite understand... I'm still slightly newbie :o) > > > Quote from the bacula site > (http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Current_State_Bacula.html#SECTION00540000000000000000): > "Bacula's Differential and Incremental backups are based on time > stamps. Consequently, if you move files into an existing directory or > move a whole directory into the backup fileset after a Full backup, > those files will probably not be backed up by an Incremental save > because they will have old dates. You must explicitly update the > date/time stamp on all moved files (we have a project to correct this)." > > This is the reason why we created a program for our windows-clients > that is checking the files and directories of the backupfolders and if > it found some file with an archiveflag it remove it and set a newer > timestemp instead. Not everybody is happy here if the timestemp > changed but it´s better than have no backup for a long time. > > However I don´t know if it is the same in Linux. I thought (after a > few tests) Linux is save :). We don´t use such program or script > there. So I´m interessted if this could be the reason for your problem. > > > Greetings, > user100 > > > > > > Sebastian Perkins schrieb: > > Hello > > > > We are using bacula for the first time in restoration mode : bacula > > version 2.03 / platform fedora core 6. Bacula has been running > w/o save > > errors for 2 months. > > > > A test user has asked us to restore an entire directory = what it > > contained last friday. > > > Is it possible that you have put the directory to the destination > in a > way that the timestemps did not change? Can you see all files when > you > try to select them for restore? I think there is a Problem when > you move > files or directories but I thought this problem mainly depends > only to > Win-Clients. > > > If I go through the restore process (using option 6 to select > backup for > > a client before a specific time) and mark his directory, restore > is OK > > BUT, only the modified files of last friday get restored... as > if bacula > > just restored that jobid. > > > > Our strategy is to use only the "incremental" option to save on > a rather > > large disk drive (no tapes) to keep the file system. A full > backup takes > > 250 Go of disk space... > > > > Bacula determined that the first incremental save was "full" so > we do > > have a full backup for reference. > > > > This is what the schedule entry looks like > > > > Schedule { > > Name = "WeeklyCycle" > > Run = Incremental mon-sun at 23:05 > > } > > > > Is this correct ? What is going wrong ? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
