Hi,
Thank you for answering.
So as you say the problem is that Bacula checks only the FileSet resource
and not the contents.
Good to know :D
I solved the problem making more or less what I expected, so my client is
saving md5 of the fileset content and comparing before starting the Backup.
Thanks again
On Tue, 08 May 2007 12:37:01 +0200, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 5/5/2007 11:41 AM, viashino wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm still trying to understand why my setup isn't working as expected.
>> I did some tests (thx Arno for pointing me) about the Ignore FileSet
>> Changes option.
>> This option should be "no" by default as stated on the manual.
>
> Right.
>
>> Here what I did:
>> - I added the directive (forced to no) in the example configuration, and
>> set the File list to be on the client. [1]
>> - I deleted/purged every old job of my client
>> - I added one directory to /home/viashino/files (/etc/bacula) and did a
>> full backup. ( End time: 05-mag-2007 11:21:31)
>> - Added a second directory to /home/viashino/files (/var) and did an:
>> "estimate level=Incremental listing" (a snap is attached [2])
>
> Well... the first, full, backup stored /etc/bacula. The incremental will
> only sore what's changed.
>
> I think I understand the problem: The Ignore Fileset Changes option
> affects what is stored in the fileset resource. When inserting lines
> through an external file, it does not watch the (dynamically) inserted
> contents.
>
>> - I then did a backup (incremental) to be sure that it wasn't a problem
>> of the estimate (ok, this can sound silly, but I wanted to test
>> everything) but indeed the backup was wrong : it backuped only a cuple
>> of
>> files (20 more or less).
>
> Which ones? I suspect the ones from /var changed after the initial full
> backup.
>
>> The Ignore FileSet Changes should compare the two include/exclude lists
>> (md5 hash, right?) and if the newest is different from the last, run a
>> full backup. Unfortunatly Bacula is not doing this.
>
> Bacula compares the contents of the fileset resource, not the resulting
> effective fileset.
>
>> When I added /var to my fileset and did the incremental, it backuped
>> ONLY
>> the files that were modified after the backup, basing ONLY on the
>> time-stamp.
>
> That's expected, as the time-stamp is the criterion by which Bacula
> decides what to store.
>
>>
>> I'm using Debian on both client and server, bacula version 2.0.3 (06
>> March
>> 2007).
>>
>> Also I'm facing the same problem on the Windows Client (that was the
>> starting point :D )
>>
>> Now, is this a bug?
>
> I doubt it... sounds like a feature request to me. "Make Bacula consider
> the effective fileset after including external data when checking for
> fileset changes."
>
> Unfortunately, I suspect that would break setups where the file list is
> generated dynamically and might change formatting and order, but not the
> actual contents.
>
> Arno
>
>
>> Thank you for the help, If you need more information please tell me.
>>
>> viashino
>>
>> ########[1]##################
>>
>> FileSet {
>> Name = "Full Set"
>> Ignore FileSet Changes = no
>> Include {
>> Options {
>> signature = MD5
>> }
>> File = </home/viashino/files
>> }
>> Exclude {
>> File = /proc
>> File = /tmp
>> File = /.journal
>> File = /.fsck
>> }
>> }
>>
>> ########[2]##################
>>
>> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 100352 2007-05-05 11:21:30
>> /var/lib/mysql/bacula/Filename.MYI
>> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 59592 2007-05-05 11:21:30
>> /var/lib/mysql/bacula/Filename.MYD
>> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 319488 2007-05-05 11:21:31
>> /var/lib/mysql/bacula/File.MYI
>> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 439708 2007-05-05 11:21:31
>> /var/lib/mysql/bacula/File.MYD
>> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 3072 2007-05-05 11:21:31
>> /var/lib/mysql/bacula/Job.MYI
>> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 3040 2007-05-05 11:21:31
>> /var/lib/mysql/bacula/Job.MYD
>> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 3072 2007-05-05 11:21:31
>> /var/lib/mysql/bacula/JobMedia.MYI
>> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 650 2007-05-05 11:21:31
>> /var/lib/mysql/bacula/JobMedia.MYD
>> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 4096 2007-05-05 11:21:31
>> /var/lib/mysql/bacula/Media.MYI
>> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 576 2007-05-05 11:21:31
>> /var/lib/mysql/bacula/Media.MYD
>> -rw------- 1 bacula bacula 0 2007-05-05 11:21:55
>> /var/lib/bacula/OctOpus-Link-dir.conmsg
>> -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 97261 2007-05-05 11:21:31
>> /var/lib/bacula/log
>>
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