Hello,

Le Thursday 10 September 2009 13:25:50 Ralf Gross, vous avez écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong or if I missunderstood the
> accurate option.
>
> http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html#SECTIO
>N00310000000000000000
>
> I was suprised that a differential job with the accurate option enabled
> wants to backup nearly all files in a fileset again during differential
> backup. Where the backup job without the accurate option would backup just
> 390 MB.
>
>
> estimate Level=Differential Job=VU0EF005-INV-Volume1 accurate=no
> 2000 OK estimate files=5306 bytes=389,594,861
>
>
> estimate Level=Differential Job=VU0EF005-INV-Volume2 accurate=yes
> 2000 OK estimate files=13328 bytes=7,133,512,989,958
>
>
> for comparision a full backup:
>
> estimate Level=Full Job=VU0EF005-INV-Volume2 accurate=yes
> 2000 OK estimate files=13335 bytes=7,133,517,546,143
>
>
> I thought the option would track files and detect moved or deleted files. I
> also thought this would mean that the location of moved files would be
> updated in the database but these files wouldn't get backed up again (my
> assumption...).

At this time, there is no way to have "symlinks" in the catalog, this is a 
further step in the roadmap. It's also a good idea to backup only meta-data if 
only the date or the owner of the file has changed.

> I can't explain why the above accurate backup gets so big, the only thing
> that I could think of is a huge amount of moved files (or a toplevel
> directory) that are backed up again.
>
> So just for clarification, moved files will be detected and _backed_ up
> again?

Yes, the filename is the main key.

Bye

> Thanks, Ralf
>

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