Hi, 21.02.2008 11:29, Rainer Koenig wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running bacula 2.2.8 form Debian backports org on an Etch server. > There is also my desktop which runs the bacula-fd to be backed up every > day at 10 o'clock. > The schedule is monday to thursday: incremental backup. Friday: full. > > Now I'm wondering about my incremental backup. Every day it runs, but > the files it stores in the backup are all changed files PLUS all > directories, no matter if a file inside the directory was changed or > not. > > The same job and schedule is running on my bacula server to backup the > serer. Here the incremental backup takes all the files that changed and > the directories containting them, but nothing more than this. > > The result is that my desktop uses a lot of volume space for things that > aren't really necessary to be put on the backup (at least from my point > of view). > > Now I really wonder about the WHY. The only obvious difference is that > the desktop is powered off during the night while the server is running > 7x24 hours. But I tried to shutdwon the desktop, drink a coffee, start > it again and do an incremental backup and then the files backed up look > reasonable and don't include every subdirectory in my fileset. > > What am I doing wrong?
I don't know... but the way Bacula decides what to back up is described here: http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/install/install/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION00830000000000000000 in the explanation of Jobs / Level. What it comes down to is that you need to know why the access times of the directories are modified. Virus scanners are known to do this sometimes, but actually, any process could. I'd take a close look at what jobs you're running from cron... Arno > Regards > Rainer -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
