No suggestions? Can someone tell me how to list the files that were backed up? Even better, how to find out _why_ they were backed up?
On 27/01/2010 14:32, Ben Laurie wrote: > On 27/01/2010 13:50, Dan Langille wrote: >> Ben Laurie wrote: >>> Firstly: apologies if this issue is well known, gmane says this list >>> either doesn't exist or is not indexed, so I can't search it :-( >> >> Try marc.info >> >>> I installed Bacula 3.0.3 from source on my ReadyNAS as a client to my >>> FreeBSD 3.0.3 server. It seems to work OK, but incremental and >>> differential backups back up far more than they should (10s of GBs, when >>> the changes should be more or less none, or a GB or two at most), is >>> this well known, if so, what do I do about it? If not, how would I go >>> about diagnosing the problem? >> >> How do you know Bacula is *not* doing the tight thing? >> >> Bacula works on mtime (in general). If the file has been modified, >> it'll be backed up. >> >> Doesn't sound like a bug so far. > > The evidence is somewhat circumstantial, I'll admit, becuause I haven't > figured out how to tell exactly what it is backing up (how do I do that? > "list files jobid=<blah>" gave me an empty list, for example), but I've > seen it backing up at least some of my mp3 collection, including files > which have not been modified. The collection used to live on a FreeBSD > machine and did not get modified there, so I have no particular reason > to think it is getting modified on the ReadyNAS, and indeed a find . > -mtime -30 shows that only the expected files (i.e. new rips) are more > recent. > > Another way to look at it is pretty much everything on the ReadyNAS used > to be on some other system, but since I moved it, the backup volume has > gone _way_ up. > > And another is that an incremental the day after a full is backing up > about 1/3 of the total disk used (i.e. about 50 GB out of 150) and > there's just no way 50 GB of mostly static stuff (mp3s and photos) has > been modified (at least, not intentionally, but that seems to be > confirmed by find as above). > > Cheers, > > Ben. > -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.links.org/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
