On Thursday 11 October 2012 15:15:54 Juan Pablo Lorier wrote: > Hi, > > I'm curious about the behaviour of bacula. Recently I was backing up a > directory and meanwhile I added more directories to it. to my surprise, > Bacula backed up everything, not just the files that where in the > directory. I'm used to other backup and synchronization software that > create a file list before starting to actually do the backup. This means > that if new files or directory are added to the target, they are not > taken into account and if anything is deleted before being backed up, it > either warns or quit with error. This protects against the possibility > of believe that something was backed up but actually, was not. > Can someone confirm this and maybe help me get a work around to this? > Regards, > > Juan Pablo Lorier
That is the standard behaviour with Bacula. If the fileset is amended at all, a full backup will be done unless you include the clause Ignore FileSet Changes = yes in the fileset definition -- Gary Stainburn Group I.T. Manager Ringways Garages http://www.ringways.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
