On 12/11/2010 9:57 AM, David Hollingworth wrote:
> Hi
>
> I hope someone can help me with this question.
>
> I am running:
> *version
> tullig-server-dir Version: 5.0.0 (26 January 2010) i686-pc-linux-gnu
> ubuntu 9.10
>
> To backup a few PC's at home. I was using bat to peruse the contents of
> the incremental backups of one of these PCs this evening when I found
> that, according to the bat version browser, a number of files that
> really should be in the backups weren't there! Naturally I threw my
> hands up in horror; if these files are missing from the backup what else
> is missing.
>
> The particular backup I was viewing was of a PC running Windows Vista
> (32 bit) with the latest Bacula client on it. This PC is dedicated to
> servicing an automated weather station (aws) I run so it takes data from
> the aws and stores it in a number of report formats. The entire aws
> software set is installed in C:\vws. Here's my FileSet definition:
>
> FileSet {
> Name = "TulligWeather"
> Include {
> Options {
> signature = MD5
> compression = GZIP
> }
> File = "C:/vws"
> }
> #
> # Exclude these files
> #
> Exclude {
> File = *.exe
> File = *.dll
> # File = *.jpg
> }
> }
>
> Under C:\vws\data there's a number of subdirectories containing text
> files, things like \archive, \csv, \daily, \ globe. These all get backed
> up OK. However there's also a directory C:\vws\data\noaa which contains
> .txt files. There's one file for every month and an annual file. The
> current month file gets written to every 5 minutes and the annual file
> gets written to every hour.
>
> So why aren't these two files being backed up as part of each daily
> incremental backup?
>
> I've not specified any Accurate settings so Bacula should be using mcs.
> As the files are modified often each day, and certainly the monthly file
> grows each day, I would have though mcs would have covered it nicely.
>
> I'm very concerned now that it appears not only are these important
> files not being archived; but can I trust Bacula to backup what I expect
> it to backup?Let's start by not using bat. Use bconsole to confirm the situation. Try this command: echo 'list files jobid=XXX' | bconsole | grep ABC Where XXX is a job that should have backed up the file ABC Do you see any output? If that doesn't give you any joy, try this instead, so you can see all the files, within bconsole: list files jobid=XXX' -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
