Estimates are full. It's in the manual, IIRC.

Francisco Reyes wrote:

> John Kodis writes:
>
>> I'd guess that either you've changed something in your filesystem --
>> touched most of the files, or changed where a large filesystem is
>> mounted -- or that Bacula overrode your request.
>
>
> Can't really imagine any of the above.
> Anyone could confirm that this sequence works for them:
> + Create full job
> + Change job to incremental
> + Do estimate on job (and estimate will show only changed files)
>
>>  Even if you specify
>> an incremental, Bacula will perform a full backup if there's no
>> suitable full backup found.
>
>
> Full backup finished without problems. Got email with status and I
> don't recall seeing any problems.
>
>>> And if the bacula-dir did die, will running backups stop? 
>>
>>
>> Yup.  Even if you're sure that your configuration files are correct,
>> I'd be surprised if the Bacula director could survive the type of
>> mid-job restart the you seem to be contemplating.
>
>
> I really should have written "if bacula-dir will die after doing a
> reload if there are any syntax errors"
>
>> I have no idea, nor any reason to care as the database stuff has
>> always just worked.  Are you just curious, or is there some other
>> issue that you're chasing?
>
>
>
> It is actually a possible PostgreSQL performance issue. If each new
> record is inserted independantly, the inserts will be slower than if
> you have many inserts/updates within a single transaction. 
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