Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups stacking up behind long-running job

2017-02-08 Thread Philipp Wagner
Hello, thanks for your fast response. Question is answered, problem should be solved - perfect! Best regards, Philipp Am 08.02.2017 um 14:05 schrieb Kern Sibbald: > Hello, > > I confirm that the Allow Duplicate Jobs patch is and has been for some > time in Bacula. > > Best regards, > Kern > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups stacking up behind long-running job

2017-02-08 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, I confirm that the Allow Duplicate Jobs patch is and has been for some time in Bacula. Best regards, Kern On 02/08/2017 01:36 PM, Thomas Lohman wrote: >> One of the queued backups is the next incremental backup of "archive". >> My expectation was that the incremental backup would run onl

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups stacking up behind long-running job

2017-02-08 Thread Thomas Lohman
> One of the queued backups is the next incremental backup of "archive". > My expectation was that the incremental backup would run only some hours > after the full backup finishes, so the difference is really small and it > only takes some minutes and only requires a small amount of tape > storage

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups and directory attributes

2011-12-15 Thread Vladimir Vassiliev
15.12.2011 15:04, Konstantin Khomoutov пишет: > On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:22:41 +0400 > Vladimir Vassiliev wrote: > >> If I restore only files from one certain incremental job, attributes >> of some directories are wrongly restored, as I understand it's >> because of these directories was not backed

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups and directory attributes

2011-12-15 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:22:41 +0400 Vladimir Vassiliev wrote: > If I restore only files from one certain incremental job, attributes > of some directories are wrongly restored, as I understand it's > because of these directories was not backed up in this job but only > files somewhere in depth, so

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-15 Thread Eric Bollengier
Le samedi 15 janvier 2011 15:27:48, Bart Swedrowski a écrit : > On 15 January 2011 14:12, Eric Bollengier > > > wrote: > > > > It sounds to be a bug when the FileDaemon is computing the checksum of > > the file, it updates the Bytes Written counter when it shouldn't. > > > > Looks trivial to fi

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-15 Thread Bart Swedrowski
On 15 January 2011 14:12, Eric Bollengier wrote: > It sounds to be a bug when the FileDaemon is computing the checksum of the > file, it updates the Bytes Written counter when it shouldn't. > > Looks trivial to fix, but I need some time to test the patch That's interesting. Would you like me t

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-15 Thread Eric Bollengier
Hello, > Now the bit that is particularly interesting to me is: > > * FD Bytes Written: 40,119,463,364 (40.11 GB)* > * SD Bytes Written: 256,785,265 (256.7 MB) * > > Nothing has been written to the FD. FD was being read during the backup > time only. And the amount shown as "SD B

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-14 Thread Bart Swedrowski
On 14 January 2011 20:18, Martin Simmons wrote: > It sounds like you have some large files which compress a lot. > Nah, I don't think that is the case. I know what are those files and those are mainly small, tiny files like emails, small log files. Have a look at below's output. *14-Jan 02:38

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-14 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:23:37 +, Bart Swedrowski said: > > 2011/1/13 Mark : > > Have you done a 'list files jobid=' for one of your incrementals? > >  Maybe you have a few really large files that are getting changed every day, > > and therefore getting backed up each day. > > Yeah, I tri

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-14 Thread Bart Swedrowski
On 14 January 2011 09:23, Bart Swedrowski wrote: > Also, it's Bacula 5.0.3-2 re-compiled from sources provided on www.bacula.org. Sorry - that is Bacula 5.0.3-1 re-compiled from sources on www.bacula.org. -- Protect Your

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-14 Thread Bart Swedrowski
2011/1/13 Mark : > Have you done a 'list files jobid=' for one of your incrementals? >  Maybe you have a few really large files that are getting changed every day, > and therefore getting backed up each day. Yeah, I tried that, too. It's only listing files that got changed/are new and should be b

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread Guy
another solution... though not quite the best... create a pool and jobs specific to the PST file.. set the retention on the pool to be say 7 days.. That way you can backup/restore the pst file separately and not effect the backup of the rest of your system. Obviously you still have to send over

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread Paul Mather
On Jan 13, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Lawrence Strydom wrote: > I understand that something is adding data and logically the backup should > grow. What I don't understand is why the entire file has to be backed up if > only a few bytes of data has changed. It is mainly outlook.pst files and > MSSQL data

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread Lawrence Strydom
Thanks for the clear answer Paul. Seems like I will have to enable Acurate and buy more disks. On 13 January 2011 23:27, Paul Mather wrote: > On Jan 13, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Lawrence Strydom wrote: > > > I understand that something is adding data and logically the backup > should grow. What I do

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread Blake Dunlap
2011/1/13 Lawrence Strydom > Hi And thanks for all the replies so far. > > I'm running Bacula 5.0.3 on OpenSuSE 11.3. Self compiled with the following > configure options: > > * --enable-smartalloc --sbindir=/usr/local/bacula/bin > --sysconfdir=/usr/local/bacula/bin -with-mysql -with-openssl -ena

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread Guy
Sorry Bacula is not that clever..indeed it's just checking for files which changes.. It's not able to determine how the file changed, or just back up those bits which changed. ---Guy Sent from my iPad On 13 Jan 2011, at 20:44, Lawrence Strydom wrote: > Hi And thanks for all the replies so fa

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread Lawrence Strydom
Hi And thanks for all the replies so far. I'm running Bacula 5.0.3 on OpenSuSE 11.3. Self compiled with the following configure options: * --enable-smartalloc --sbindir=/usr/local/bacula/bin --sysconfdir=/usr/local/bacula/bin -with-mysql -with-openssl -enable-bat -sysconfdir=/etc/bacula -enable-t

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread Mark
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Bart Swedrowski wrote: > > I think what Lawrence meant was that say full backup takes 33GB, as > the one below. > > | 1,089 | tic FS | 2011-01-08 02:05:03 | B| F | > 464,798 | 33,390,404,320 | T | > > Now, if you do Incremental backup, it'

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread John Drescher
> First there's something adding data everyday, so that's why there's more and > more data. > I hope you put a limit on the file size or usage duration so that this volume does not grow until it fills up the disk. Remember / retention does not work until the volume is marked Full or used and for

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread Bruno Friedmann
On 01/13/2011 11:42 AM, Bart Swedrowski wrote: > 2011/1/12 Kleber Leal >> Yes. The entire file is backed up again when gets modification. >> Incremental backups include all modified files since last backup (Full, >> Incremental ou differential). Incremental and differential are file based. >> if

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread Valerio Pachera
2011/1/12 Lawrence Strydom : > This leads me > to believe that the entire file is being backed up instead of only the > changed data which is my understanding of a differential backup. The only program I know that work in that way is rdiff-backup. It's very efficent in saving sapce but you do now

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread Bart Swedrowski
2011/1/12 Kleber Leal > Yes. The entire file is backed up again when gets modification. > Incremental backups include all modified files since last backup (Full, > Incremental ou differential). Incremental and differential are file based. > if you have a 100GB file and this was modified, it will

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-12 Thread Kleber Leal
Yes. The entire file is backed up again when gets modification. Incremental backups include all modified files since last backup (Full, Incremental ou differential). Incremental and differential are file based. if you have a 100GB file and this was modified, it will be backed up and will use this s

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups always full size

2010-06-20 Thread Jordi Augé
Jordi - Missatge Original - De: "Ryan Novosielski" A: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Enviat: Dimecres, 16 de Juny 16el 2010 16:25:58 Assumpte: Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups always full size -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm not certain. I'm

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups always full size

2010-06-16 Thread Ryan Novosielski
, > right? > > - Missatge Original - > De: "Ryan Novosielski" > A: "Jordi Augé" > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Enviat: Dimecres, 16 de Juny 16el 2010 15:21:18 > Assumpte: Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups always full size >

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups always full size

2010-06-16 Thread Jordi Augé
the same Bacula relies on, right? - Missatge Original - De: "Ryan Novosielski" A: "Jordi Augé" Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Enviat: Dimecres, 16 de Juny 16el 2010 15:21:18 Assumpte: Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups always full size -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups always full size

2010-06-16 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jordi Augé wrote: > Hello, > > I am having a problem with a Bacula 5.0.1 installation. It's an Ubuntu 10.04 > server, and Bacula's been installed from the Ubuntu repositories. > > I'm backing up about 165 GB of data onto files and I'd like to make t

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental Backups - Deletion of files

2010-01-21 Thread Carlo Filippetto
If I understand well.. you can restore single file, ther's no problem on this, the problem is if the file is into your backup!! If you receive the mail an tuesday and you delete it on thursday, obviusly you can't find it in monday backup You have to do a full or differential backup every weekend, a

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups of restored data

2009-06-02 Thread Silver Salonen
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 22:15:47 Martin Simmons wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 10:54:24 +0300, Silver Salonen said: > > > > Hello. > > > > Currently I see this behavior in Bacula 3.0.0 (on FreeBSD): > > > > I backup a directory (having 6 files), then remove the original directory and > > re

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups of restored data

2009-06-02 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 10:54:24 +0300, Silver Salonen said: > > Hello. > > Currently I see this behavior in Bacula 3.0.0 (on FreeBSD): > > I backup a directory (having 6 files), then remove the original directory and > restore it from backup. When I run an incremental backup of the same > di

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups of older data

2009-02-19 Thread Sebastian Stark
On 18.02.2009, at 22:08, Arno Lehmann wrote: >> Is there any way to tell bacula it should backup all new files (new >> meaning "not already backed up") within this directory, regardless of >> the timestamp, without doing a full backup? >> > Solution one: Wait for 3.0, and / or start testing the cu

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups of older data

2009-02-19 Thread Sebastian Stark
On 19.02.2009, at 14:50, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >> Is there any way to tell bacula it should backup all new >> files (new meaning "not already backed up") within this >> directory, regardless of the timestamp, without doing a >> full backup? > Exclude the /archive from your normal backup job file

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups of older data

2009-02-19 Thread Jari Fredriksson
> For special data we have a backup scheme that does not > really fit bacula's idea of incremental backups: > > There is a directory, say /archive, that is empty by > default. If something needs to be backed up by bacula, it > is copied (or moved) into this directory. Then the backup > job is star

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups of older data

2009-02-18 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 18.02.2009 14:55, Sebastian Stark wrote: > For special data we have a backup scheme that does not really fit > bacula's idea of incremental backups: > > There is a directory, say /archive, that is empty by default. If > something needs to be backed up by bacula, it is copied (or moved)

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups

2007-08-28 Thread Bachman Kharazmi
yup, you were both right [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/backup$ stat bkw_home_and_etc_venus30Jun07.tar.gz File: `bkw_home_and_etc_venus30Jun07.tar.gz' Size: 724985425 Blocks: 1417384IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 807h/2055d Inode: 9650180 Links: 1 Access: (0750/-rwxr-x---) Uid:

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups

2007-08-28 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 28.08.2007 23:37,, Bachman Kharazmi wrote:: > Hi > I've had problem with daily incremental backups which does seem to > backup unchanged files. > The size of my increment jobs are 1G/day which started to worry me. Make sure the files are *really* unchanged. Under unix/linux, 'stat filename'

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups

2007-08-28 Thread Drew Bentley
On 8/28/07, Bachman Kharazmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > I've had problem with daily incremental backups which does seem to > backup unchanged files. > The size of my increment jobs are 1G/day which started to worry me. > > Please see output of job here: > http://pastebin.ca/674018 > > And co

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental Backups and 'new' old files

2005-05-19 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote: As far as I know, NTFS has similar timestamps - atime, mtime and ctime - as normal unix file systems. I'm not sure, but I think I remember reading somewhere that under Windows you can avoid changing them when you modify a file. There are more attributes t

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental Backups and 'new' old files

2005-05-19 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 19 May 2005 02:02:37 +0200, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Arno> Ryan LeBlanc wrote: >> Arno, thank you for your response. >> >> Here are our details: >> >> Bacula version 1.36.3 server running on Linux kernel 2.4.26. It has >> ext2 partitions mounted (rw)

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental Backups and 'new' old files

2005-05-18 Thread Arno Lehmann
Ryan LeBlanc wrote: Arno, thank you for your response. Here are our details: Bacula version 1.36.3 server running on Linux kernel 2.4.26. It has ext2 partitions mounted (rw) Ok, the server doesn't matter here, I think. The client is running Windows XP, no special mount options, just windows defaul

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental Backups and 'new' old files

2005-05-18 Thread Ryan LeBlanc
Arno, thank you for your response. Here are our details: Bacula version 1.36.3 server running on Linux kernel 2.4.26. It has ext2 partitions mounted (rw) The client is running Windows XP, no special mount options, just windows default. NTFS format on the partition Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hell

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental Backups and 'new' old files

2005-05-18 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Ryan LeBlanc wrote: We are running tests with Bacula to see if it will work in our environment. So far, we are very impressed! We have, however, run into a small problem. We do a full backup of a folder, and all files are copied as expected. We then put a file into this folder. It, howev