Re: [Bacula-users] noticing an occasional incremental backup act like full

2021-05-30 Thread Joseph Zatarski
98268-4220 América Latina [ http://bacula.lat/] Original Message From: Joseph Zatarski Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2021 04:27 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] noticing an occasional incremental backup act like full Hello again everyone, I've f

Re: [Bacula-users] noticing an occasional incremental backup act like full

2021-05-30 Thread Heitor Faria
acula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] noticing an occasional incremental backup act like full >Hello again everyone, > >I've figured out what is happening to cause this issue. > >Long story short, bacula pruned the file records from my last full >b

Re: [Bacula-users] noticing an occasional incremental backup act like full

2021-05-30 Thread Joseph Zatarski
Hello again everyone, I've figured out what is happening to cause this issue. Long story short, bacula pruned the file records from my last full backup job out of the catalog. It didn't prune the job itself, just the file records. This causes any file that hadn't been backed up since my initi

Re: [Bacula-users] noticing an occasional incremental backup act like full

2021-05-23 Thread Josip Deanovic
On Sunday 2021-05-23 14:31:51 Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote: > On Sunday, May 23, 2021 8:25 AM, Bill Arlofski wrote: > > Check this out: > > 8< > > 23-May 08:12 speedy-dir JobId 6: The FileSet "Full Set" was modified > > on 2021-05-23 08:12:32, this is after the last successful backu

Re: [Bacula-users] noticing an occasional incremental backup act like full

2021-05-23 Thread Josip Deanovic
On Sunday 2021-05-23 14:25:37 Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote: > Right, good point! And when a job (typically set to Level = Incremental) > is first run, this will always happen too. :) > > > Oh! And I just remembered that I had made an internal Bacula Enterprise > feature request some time

Re: [Bacula-users] noticing an occasional incremental backup act like full

2021-05-23 Thread Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users
On Sunday, May 23, 2021 8:25 AM, Bill Arlofski wrote: > > Check this out: > 8< > 23-May 08:12 speedy-dir JobId 6: The FileSet "Full Set" was modified on > 2021-05-23 08:12:32, this is after the last > successful backup on 2021-05-22 17:35:16. > > 23-May 08:12 speedy-dir JobId 6: No prior o

Re: [Bacula-users] noticing an occasional incremental backup act like full

2021-05-23 Thread Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users
On 5/23/21 3:50 AM, Josip Deanovic wrote: > > There is another option. > > Option 4: > - > If no valid full backup for the job could be found in the catalog, the > backup job will be upgraded from incremental or differential to full > backup. The message would be the same as the one describ

Re: [Bacula-users] noticing an occasional incremental backup act like full

2021-05-23 Thread Josip Deanovic
On Saturday 2021-05-22 21:14:20 Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote: > Hello Joe, > > I can think of three things that can cause this to happen, and at least > two of them will show some evidence in the job log > > > Option 1: > - > You have edited the Fileset, and the "IgnoreFilesetCha

Re: [Bacula-users] noticing an occasional incremental backup act like full

2021-05-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 5/22/21 4:45 PM, Joseph Zatarski wrote: > I notice that every once in a while, I'll have an incremental run that > seems to back up the entire file set with no regard to what files have > actually changed. > > Firstly, has anybody else noticed this happening? JUST TO BE CERTAIN here: Is th

Re: [Bacula-users] noticing an occasional incremental backup act like full

2021-05-22 Thread Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users
Hello Joe, I can think of three things that can cause this to happen, and at least two of them will show some evidence in the job log Option 1: - You have edited the Fileset, and the "IgnoreFilesetChanges = yes" option was not set at the top of the Fileset. In this case Bacula will l

[Bacula-users] noticing an occasional incremental backup act like full

2021-05-22 Thread Joseph Zatarski
Hello, I've been using bacula for a few years now to do backups to LTO tape. Backups are pretty informal, but the general process is to do a full backup every few months, and then weekly incrementals between full backups. I am running linux here at home, mostly debian and variants at the mome