Hi
Apologies, I missed cc'ing the list when I replied to Dan.
The issue was with bat. When I tried Dan's command line for checking the
files included in the job the files were, in fact, present. It seems
that bat had omitted to report them in its file list for some reason.
Just to reply to your suggestions James. VSS is enabled. I did consider
using Accurate to be more accurate; but as the file size changes every
day I thought that shouldn't be required.
Thanks again to both of you for your assistance.
Regards
David
On 11/12/2010 23:16, James Harper 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?
> Does the datestamp get changed when you do a 'dir' of the files? Windows
> 2008 R2 is very sloppy about updating the modified date on files while
> they are open, but I'm not sure about Vista.
>
> If you are not using VSS then you won't be able to back up the files if
> they are in use, although you should get a message to that effect.
>
> I suggest turning on accurate, and making sure VSS is enabled.
>
> James
>
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