I have been troubleshooting how the backup for a system with total disk usage
of 9GB could produce a 24 GB backup.
What I found is that apparently, bacula backs up the same file two or sometimes
three times within a job. On this system, all data is contained in a single
file system. The file set contains root, as well as several subdirectories.
Apparently, the problem occurs for directories that are named explicitly, and
also included through a parent. For instance, /var/log/messages got backed up
three times with the file set listed below - probably because it is included
through /, /var and /var/log.
Bacula-fd: Bacula 2.4.2 (on CentOS 5.4)
Bacula-dir (and bacula-sd): Bacula 3.0.3 (on OpenSUSE 11.2)
Is that because of an incompatibility between 2.4 and 3.0, or am I doing
something else wrong?
FileSet {
Name = "Linux Full Set"
Include {
Options {
signature = MD5
}
File = /
File = /boot
File = /home
File = /srv
File = /usr
File = /var
File = /var/log
File = /var/lib/bacula
}
Exclude {
File = /proc
File = /dev
File = /sys
File = /tmp
File = /.journal
File = /.fsck
File = /srv/installimage
File = /var/lock
File = /var/run
File = /var/tmp
File = /var/cache
File = /var/spool/postfix/public
File = /var/spool/amavis/virusmails
File = /var/spool/postfix/private
File = /var/lib/mysql
File = /var/lib/dhcp/dev/log
File = /var/lib/php5
File = /var/lib/named/dev/log
File = /var/lib/samba/winbindd_privileged/pipe
File = /var/lib/zypp/cache
File = /var/lib/zmd
File = /var/lib/ntp
File = /var/lib/logrotate.status
File = /var/spool/cron/lastrun
File = /var/log/zmd-*
File = /var/log/ntp
File = /var/log/httpd/error.*
File = /virtual
}
}
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