Hi, 15.10.2008 19:01, Hemant Shah wrote: > Folks, > > I ran dbcheck command on bacula catalog and I it found following: > > Checking for Filenames with a trailing slash > Found 0 bad Filename records. > Checking for Paths without a trailing slash > Found 0 bad Path records. > Checking for duplicate Filename entries. > Found 0 duplicate Filename records. > Checking for duplicate Path entries. > Found 0 duplicate Path records. > Checking for orphaned JobMedia entries. > Checking for orphaned File entries. This may take some time! > Checking for orphaned Path entries. This may take some time! > Found 5231 orphaned Path records. > Checking for orphaned Filename entries. This may take some time! > Found 35007 orphaned Filename records. > Checking for orphaned FileSet entries. This takes some time! > Found 0 orphaned FileSet records. > Checking for orphaned Client entries. > Found 0 orphaned Client records. > Checking for orphaned Job entries. > Found 0 orphaned Job records. > Checking for Admin Job entries. > Found 19 Admin Job records. > Checking for Restore Job entries. > Found 0 Restore Job records. > > > What causes the orphaned paths and files?
That happens because, when Bacula prunes jobs, it does not verify that a file name and path name record is still in use. For example, you have backed up /somedir/somefile. The file is pruned, but the path and the file name remain in the catalog. This is done because - as you probably noticed - finding these entries can take a very long time which we don't want to spend during regular, in-job, pruning. Also, the entries will be reused if, later, you back up /somedir/anotherfile and /home/user/somefile. Or, in short - you're not seeing errors, you just found out a reason why a scheduled dbcheck can help limiting the catalog size. Arno > Hemant Shah > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users