> so it should be relatively easy to build a new CentOS 7 machine to get
5.2.13.
I'm using 5.2.13 on CentOS 6 form the following repo -
https://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/slaanesh/bacula/ without any problem.
So you could try it.
> On 12 May 2015, at 07:33, Radosław Korzeniewski <rados...@korzeniewski.net>
> wrote:
>
> why does the subsequent differential not appear to include any of them,
>> given that it's supposed to be backing up everything changed since the last
>> full dump (in my case, on 2015-04-19) ?
>>
>
> Well, it should. A differential backup level is backing up everything
> which was modified (or deleted when using accurate backup mode) since last
> full backup level.
>
>
> Thanks for the confirmation.
>
> The director is running on a CentOS 6 system and claims to be Bacula
>> 5.0.0. The client is CentOS 7 and Bacula 5.2.x, but looking at the jobs for
>> other systems they also seem to have inconsistencies like this.
>>
>
> It is unsupported configuration. Your any client (Bacula FD) version
> shouldn't be a newest version then Director/Storage.
>
> This could be a core problem in your case.
>
>
> I appear to be seeing the same problem with CentOS 6 / CentOS 6
> combinations:
>
> | 9,931 | srv-c601-backup | 2015-05-01 23:32:01 | B | I | 90
> | 12,990,648 | T |
> | 9,940 | srv-c601-backup | 2015-05-02 23:08:27 | B | I | 3,877
> | 50,585,887 | T |
> | 9,949 | srv-c601-backup | 2015-05-03 23:08:56 | B | I | 101
> | 13,051,119 | T |
> | 9,958 | srv-c601-backup | 2015-05-04 23:09:04 | B | D | 87
> | 13,025,155 | T |
>
> So the relative age of the Director and FD does not appear to be a factor.
>
> Restoring the most recent full dump, the most recent differential and all
>> subsequent incrementals definitely leaves a lot of files off the table.
>> I've had a bit more success by restoring from all the jobs available in
>> order, but unfortunately some of the earlier incrementals have been
>> recycled so the data unique to them appears to be lost.
>>
>
> If you want to restore a recent backup of the client then you should use a
> p.5 of the restore command: 5: Select the most recent backup for a client.
> Then Bacula will compound a set of required jobs for you.
>
>
> That's what I tried at first, as described in the paragraph you quoted; it
> left files out as described. Including all the available incrementals and
> differentials got me close enough to get the system back to functionality
> after a lot of "yum reinstall" to fill in missing system files. Fortunately
> the system was a relatively new one, and I keep a copy of /etc/ in Git as
> well.
>
> First - UPGRADE YOUR BACULA DIRECTOR/STORAGE! it is more then 5 years
> old!!! :)
>
>
> The headline version of packages shipped with enterprise distributions is
> often pretty ancient, that's the tradeoff you pay for stability.
>
> I take your point, though, that the Director/SD should not be older than
> the clients, so I need to fix that. Fortunately the (virtual) machine
> running the Director and Storage daemons is dedicated to that task, so it
> should be relatively easy to build a new CentOS 7 machine to get 5.2.13.
>
> I don't think I actually have a version mismatch problem (as I'm seeing
> the same issue with matched versions), but there are all sorts of reasons
> this might make my problem go away: there may be a bug in the version of
> 5.0 shipped with RHEL/CentOS, or I may have a configuration problem. Either
> way, starting from scratch and transitioning clients over may help.
>
> In the meanwhile, I'll probably just stop using differentials.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Ian
>
>
>
>
>
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