On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 14:39 -0400, John Drescher wrote: > Make sure the times of the folders (modified and ctime) also any > attributes are not changing between backups.
I suppose it's good to check the obvious and the stupid first, but I don't think that's it. I don't know how to check to see if "attributes" are changing, but it seems unlikely that would be happening on all my desktops and servers. Here's one example: | 27 | confusion | 2013-08-04 06:16:04 | B | F | 726,854 | 27,626,867,742 | T | | 38 | confusion | 2013-08-07 00:05:58 | B | I | 684 | 1,786,383,078 | T | | 47 | confusion | 2013-08-08 00:11:09 | B | I | 726,862 | 28,140,663,999 | T | FileSet { Name = "confusion" Include { Options { signature = MD5 } File = / File = /old } # # If you backup the root directory, the following two excluded # files can be useful # Exclude { File = /var/spool/bacula File = /tmp File = /proc File = /tmp File = /.journal File = /.fsck } } [root@confusion /]# find / -xdev -mtime -2 -print | wc -l 409 [root@confusion /]# find /old -xdev -mtime -2 -print | wc -l 0 [root@confusion /]# find /old -xdev -ctime -2 -print | wc -l 0 [root@confusion /]# find / -xdev -ctime -2 -print | wc -l 719 Some of the ctime and mtime changes are likely for the same files, but in any case, it doesn't look like there should have been more than 1100 files or so on today's incremental, instead there were 726,000. Anything else I can use besides "find" to see what ought to be in an incremental? I'm sure it's either something I've done wrong or something I don't understand about how Bacula is supposed to work. Just for grins, I tried explicitly entering a Job stanza for the incremental backups, like this: Job { Name = "CLIENT-NAME-Incremental" JobDefs = "DefaultJob" Type = Backup Level = Incremental Schedule = CLIENT-NAME Client = CLIENT-NAME File Set = CLIENT-NAME } If after this change, I do "estimate" and select confusion-Incremental, it still says 726,000 files will be backed up. --Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users