CC'ing the list. Why doesn't "reply" reply to the list?? On Thu, July 12, 2007 10:15 am, Malcolm Hunter wrote: > > On Thu, July 12, 2007 10:00 am, Troy Daniels wrote: >> One question, >> >> Did /tmp/bacula-test/dir2 contain files created/modified before job 234? >> >> And if so, did Bacula back them up? > > I can't see how it could as it wasn't included. > >> >> Imagine this scenario: >> >> 1) /tmp/bacula-test/dir2 is created and files copied into it. >> 2) Full Job 234 runs and does a full backup of /tmp/bacula-test/dir1 >> 3) More files are added to /tmp/bacula-test/dir2 >> 4) Fileset is updated to include /tmp/bacula-test/dir2 >> 5) Incr Job 235 runs. >> >> Will job 235 only backup files created/modified since the last full >> backup? Or is Bacula smart enough to recognise it's never backed this >> directory up at all before and include all of it's contents. > > In my experience with backups generally, the best method is to include > everything and specifically exclude what you don't want (i.e. > pagefile.sys, temp dirs, etc). Filesets should be fairly static - you > shouldn't need to keep modifying them everytime you add a directory. > >> >> Based on the following snippet from the docs, I suspect the former: >> >> "We strongly recommend against >> setting this directive to yes, since doing so may cause you to >> have an incomplete set of backups." > > Sounds like good advice. > > Regards, > Malcolm > -- > Web Development, Technical Copy-Editing & Proofreading > > KDE Proofreading Team > KDE British English Translation Team > > http://l10n.kde.org/team-infos.php?teamcode=en_GB >
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