Hi there, this is probably bad form as I'm essentially asking the same question twice but I'm in a bit of a bind so here goes. Last week I posted this issue regarding the fact that it looks like bacula just randomly decided not to backup a bunch of files.
http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/bacula-25/bacula-has-only-backed-up-part-of-a-directory-110828/ I got a couple of replies which didn't pan out, I've been doing some reading myself and digging through logs and so far I've got absolutely squat. No idea why this happened, no idea how to stop it happening or how to test for it without running a restore of every backup we do every day. I also can't reproduce the issue. So here I am, we've got hundreds of servers that backup using bacula and now because this has happened I can't trust bacula. OK, it's only happened once in the years that I've been using this software but if I don't know why it happened, how can I be sure it won't happen again? Maybe it's already happened and we won't find out until we try another directory with missing files. If anyone has any suggestions as to my next step, I'd appreciate it. Hi there, backup server is Debian lenny running bacula 5.02, client is debian sarge running bacula 1.38.11. The server is a web server and on the 22nd a copy was made of the main site, if you look at the backup job for that day, you can see an extra 4000 files. We're running daily incrementals with a full at the start of the month. Then a second copy was made on the 25th but the incrementals just show a few dozen new files. So we've got the original and two copies, let's call them www.mysite.com copy1.mysite.com copy2.mysite.com Today we went to restore copy2.mysite.com, if we select "restore most recent backup for client" or "restore before specified time" then we get back 43 files out of 4000. If I just pick "restore" then I get 107 files out of 4000. This is the same if I go back a few days. We can restore copy1.mysite.com but that's no use to us A file verify ran on the 26th and it shows all the files from copy2.mysite.com but not copy1.mysite.com Backups ran without any errors, I've checked the alert emails. I'm trying to run bscan on the volumes to see if that produces any different results but I'm having trouble with the syntax. Does anyone have any idea where the files are and how I can stop this happening again? My first thought was that the directories weren't copied but symlinked, I'm assured this is not the case. BTW, I'm not using tape, this is all on disk +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by tibus.supp...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
