Indeed, there was another script in the computer messing up the timestamps, the timestamps shown with "ls -l" were all different and correct, timestamps shown with "ls -lc" were indeed all the same.
Thanks for your help, "ls -c" was the clue I was missing! Jordi ----- Missatge Original ----- De: "Ryan Novosielski" <novos...@umdnj.edu> A: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Enviat: Dimecres, 16 de Juny 16el 2010 16:25:58 Assumpte: Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups always full size -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm not certain. I'm sure it's in the documentation. However, if "ls -c" shows all the same timestamp, I'd think that this has something to do with it. Jordi Augé wrote: > When I do "ls -l" in one of the directories being backed up, the > timestamps shown are normal, each file has its own, mostly quite old > modification date, and these have no easy correlation to any of the > backups I've made. > > The modification timestamp shown on "ls -l" is the same Bacula relies > on, right? > > ----- Missatge Original ----- > De: "Ryan Novosielski" <novos...@umdnj.edu> > A: "Jordi Augé" <jo...@auge.cat> > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Enviat: Dimecres, 16 de Juny 16el 2010 15:21:18 > Assumpte: Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups always full size > > Jordi Augé wrote: >> Hello, > >> I am having a problem with a Bacula 5.0.1 installation. It's an >> Ubuntu 10.04 server, and Bacula's been installed from the Ubuntu >> repositories. > >> I'm backing up about 165 GB of data onto files and I'd like to make >> the backups incremental. > >> The problem is, while the log shows that it's supposed to be doing an >> incremental backup, the saved data will always be the full size, even >> if it hasn't changed since the last full backup. > >> This is the log for the first (full) backup: >> http://pastebin.com/iwagCjVw This is the log for the second >> (incremental) backup: http://pastebin.com/2FGR15qM >> This is the bacula director configuration file: >> http://pastebin.com/RnKmxcYR > > Do you run any process that would change the timestamp on the files? > In one case, for example, I had a machine that was getting backed up > another way as well as Bacula and that other backup was touching all > of the files. If I recall, it uses the "change" time (ls -c) but I > could be > wrong. > - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novos...@umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/CST-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkwY3vUACgkQmb+gadEcsb72wgCfX87DsbnDJP/SJvkMEDhrENus cRQAoKzHalqRxEYPJ0CVuIddyGFPyBHB =PxZ/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
