Hi everybody, I have an update on this; last night the backup job ran again, this time as an incremental one. The job terminated successfully, but backup size again doesn't make sense, being roughly 88G (see log at the end of the mail).
A few files have changed for sure, being the machine a mail server, but nothing justifies such a huge size; just for comparison prior to installing Bacula backup was made with a custom script relying on duplicity, and incremental backup were sized at 2-3G. Again this seems to have something to do with the 80G sparse file (and possibly a few other similar files) not recognised as this. Regards, Alberto --- 06-Apr 02:05 mnemosine.lab.retis.it-dir JobId 56: Start Backup JobId 56, Job=BackupMailserver.2013-04-06_02.05.00_20 06-Apr 02:05 mnemosine.lab.retis.it-dir JobId 56: Using Device "FileStorage" 06-Apr 02:05 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: shell command: run ClientRunBeforeJob "/etc/init.d/zimbra stop" 06-Apr 02:05 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientRunBeforeJob: Host mail.mseclab.com 06-Apr 02:05 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientRunBeforeJob: Stopping vmware-ha...Done. 06-Apr 02:05 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientRunBeforeJob: Stopping zmconfigd...Done. 06-Apr 02:05 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientRunBeforeJob: Stopping stats...Done. 06-Apr 02:05 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientRunBeforeJob: Stopping mta...Done. 06-Apr 02:05 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientRunBeforeJob: Stopping spell...Done. 06-Apr 02:05 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientRunBeforeJob: Stopping snmp...Done. 06-Apr 02:05 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientRunBeforeJob: Stopping cbpolicyd...Done. 06-Apr 02:05 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientRunBeforeJob: Stopping archiving...Done. 06-Apr 02:05 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientRunBeforeJob: Stopping antivirus...Done. 06-Apr 02:05 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientRunBeforeJob: Stopping antispam...Done. 06-Apr 02:05 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientRunBeforeJob: Stopping proxy...Done. 06-Apr 02:05 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientRunBeforeJob: Stopping memcached...Done. 06-Apr 02:05 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientRunBeforeJob: Stopping mailbox...Done. 06-Apr 02:05 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientRunBeforeJob: Stopping logger...Done. 06-Apr 02:06 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientRunBeforeJob: Stopping ldap...Done. 06-Apr 02:06 mnemosine.lab.retis.it-dir JobId 56: Sending Accurate information. 06-Apr 02:06 mnemosine.lab.retis.it-sd JobId 56: Volume "Volume011" previously written, moving to end of data. 06-Apr 02:06 mnemosine.lab.retis.it-sd JobId 56: Ready to append to end of Volume "Volume011" size=37788889773 06-Apr 02:37 mnemosine.lab.retis.it-sd JobId 56: End of medium on Volume "Volume011" Bytes=53,687,033,311 Blocks=832,208 at 06-Apr-2013 02:37. 06-Apr 02:38 mnemosine.lab.retis.it-sd JobId 56: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume "Volume012" on device "FileStorage" (/backup/data) 06-Apr 02:38 mnemosine.lab.retis.it-sd JobId 56: New volume "Volume012" mounted on device "FileStorage" (/backup/data) at 06-Apr-2013 02:38. 06-Apr 04:12 mnemosine.lab.retis.it-sd JobId 56: User defined maximum volume capacity 53,687,091,200 exceeded on device "FileStorage" (/backup/data). 06-Apr 04:12 mnemosine.lab.retis.it-sd JobId 56: End of medium on Volume "Volume012" Bytes=53,687,079,632 Blocks=832,203 at 06-Apr-2013 04:12. 06-Apr 04:13 mnemosine.lab.retis.it-sd JobId 56: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume "Volume013" on device "FileStorage" (/backup/data) 06-Apr 04:13 mnemosine.lab.retis.it-sd JobId 56: New volume "Volume013" mounted on device "FileStorage" (/backup/data) at 06-Apr-2013 04:13. 06-Apr 04:45 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: shell command: run ClientAfterJob "/etc/init.d/zimbra start" 06-Apr 04:45 mnemosine.lab.retis.it-sd JobId 56: Job write elapsed time = 02:36:47, Transfer rate = 9.358 M Bytes/second 06-Apr 04:45 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientAfterJob: Host mail.mseclab.com 06-Apr 04:45 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientAfterJob: Starting ldap...Done. 06-Apr 04:46 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientAfterJob: Starting zmconfigd...Done. 06-Apr 04:46 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientAfterJob: Starting logger...Done. 06-Apr 04:47 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientAfterJob: Starting mailbox...Done. 06-Apr 04:47 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientAfterJob: Starting antispam...Done. 06-Apr 04:47 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientAfterJob: Starting antivirus...Done. 06-Apr 04:47 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientAfterJob: Starting snmp...Done. 06-Apr 04:47 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientAfterJob: Starting spell...Done. 06-Apr 04:47 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientAfterJob: Starting mta...Done. 06-Apr 04:47 mail.lab.retis.it-fd JobId 56: ClientAfterJob: Starting stats...Done. 06-Apr 04:47 mnemosine.lab.retis.it-dir JobId 56: Bacula mnemosine.lab.retis.it-dir 5.2.5 (26Jan12): Build OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu ubuntu 12.04 JobId: 56 Job: BackupMailserver.2013-04-06_02.05.00_20 Backup Level: Incremental, since=2013-04-05 02:05:51 Client: "mail.lab.retis.it-fd" 5.0.1 (24Feb10) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu,ubuntu,10.04 FileSet: "FileServer" 2013-04-03 10:02:41 Pool: "File" (From Job resource) Catalog: "MyCatalog" (From Client resource) Storage: "File" (From Job resource) Scheduled time: 06-Apr-2013 02:05:00 Start time: 06-Apr-2013 02:06:01 End time: 06-Apr-2013 04:47:48 Elapsed time: 2 hours 41 mins 47 secs Priority: 20 FD Files Written: 9,348 SD Files Written: 9,348 FD Bytes Written: 88,036,074,816 (88.03 GB) SD Bytes Written: 88,038,302,349 (88.03 GB) Rate: 9069.3 KB/s Software Compression: None VSS: no Encryption: yes Accurate: yes Volume name(s): Volume011|Volume012|Volume013 Volume Session Id: 42 Volume Session Time: 1364943276 Last Volume Bytes: 18,518,643,217 (18.51 GB) Non-fatal FD errors: 0 SD Errors: 0 FD termination status: OK SD termination status: OK Termination: Backup OK 06-Apr 04:47 mnemosine.lab.retis.it-dir JobId 56: Begin pruning Jobs older than 6 months . 06-Apr 04:47 mnemosine.lab.retis.it-dir JobId 56: No Jobs found to prune. 06-Apr 04:47 mnemosine.lab.retis.it-dir JobId 56: Begin pruning Files. 06-Apr 04:47 mnemosine.lab.retis.it-dir JobId 56: No Files found to prune. 06-Apr 04:47 mnemosine.lab.retis.it-dir JobId 56: End auto prune. --- Alberto Caporro Director of Security Services - Consulthink Srl Via dell'Archivio di Stato, 15 00144 Rome, Italy http://www.consulthink.it M. +39 335 1217 394 F. +39 06 4549 2454 GPG key fingerprint 46B5 2D38 2D48 3EFA 5C12 B86B 157D 80BA 2EAD DF41 On 5 Apr 2013, at 19:43, Alberto Caporro wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > the "estimate" command gives more or less what I actually get: > > *estimate job=BackupMailserver > Using Catalog "MyCatalog" > Connecting to Client mail.lab.retis.it-fd at 10.10.200.10:9102 > 2000 OK estimate files=417,626 bytes=145,337,578,064 > > It seems that despite the "sparse = yes" option the big file is being > counted in as with its "apparent" size. > > Just to clarify, this is what I get for the apparent and real size of > that file > > root@mail:/opt/zimbra/data/ldap/mdb/db# ls -l data.mdb && du -hs > data.mdb > -rw------- 1 zimbra zimbra 85899345920 Apr 5 17:18 data.mdb > 1.9M data.mdb > > Subtracting those 80G from 145G I get 65G, which is a much closer > approximation to the real size of the fileset to be backed up. > > Regards, > Alberto > > > --- > Alberto Caporro > Director of Security Services - Consulthink Srl > Via dell'Archivio di Stato, 15 > 00144 Rome, Italy > http://www.consulthink.it > M. +39 335 1217 394 > F. +39 06 4549 2454 > > GPG key fingerprint > 46B5 2D38 2D48 3EFA 5C12 B86B 157D 80BA 2EAD DF41 > On 5 Apr 2013, at 18:59, Adrian Reyer wrote: > >> Hi Alberto, >> >> On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 12:58:22PM +0200, Alberto Caporro wrote: >>> Hi Adrian, thanks for your advice, I was actually already thinking >>> of >>> switching to a full backup strategy; unfortunately that would not >>> solve >>> tho size issue, which at this point is becoming quite puzzling :-) >> >> Sorry, I read your original issue already as solved. >> Perhaps the 'estimate' command is helpful: >> estimate job=YOURJOB level=Full listing >> should give you a file list of what is actually backed up. Perhaps >> this >> sheds some light. >> Other posiblities depend on your mailserver software/storage format >> and >> filesystem. How are the sizes compared with >> - df >> - du -s dir >> - tar cf - dir | wc >> - tar cSf - dir | wc >> >> Regards, >> Adrian >> -- >> LiHAS - Adrian Reyer - Hessenwiesenstraße 10 - D-70565 Stuttgart >> Fon: +49 (7 11) 78 28 50 90 - Fax: +49 (7 11) 78 28 50 91 >> Mail: li...@lihas.de - Web: http://lihas.de >> Linux, Netzwerke, Consulting & Support - USt-ID: DE 227 816 626 >> Stuttgart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. 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