Hi Kern,
I've just tested this in the latest sources and can confirm that changes to
Options { wild = ... } clauses do *not* trigger an upgrade to a Full backup.
Changes to File = lines do trigger it.
Maybe that was not the intent, but it has been like that forever AFAICS.
__Martin
>>>>> On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 18:06:12 +0100, Martin Simmons said:
>
> Can you point me to the code that implements this "active" part check please?
> I can only find store_fname() and store_plugin_name() in dird/inc_conf.c that
> update the md5c while reading the config.
>
> __Martin
>
>
>>>>> On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:33:41 +0200, Kern Sibbald said:
> >
> > Bacula does an MD5 sum on the "active" part of a fileset, which means
> > that even an immaterial change such as a space is important. If the MD5
> > sum changes, Bacula will do a Full backup unless the Ignore Fileset
> > Changes is set.
> >
> > Kern
> >
> > On 24/08/2017 14:49, Martin Simmons wrote:
> > >>>>>> On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 06:33:30 +0100, Ben Laurie said:
> > >> May not be relevant that this is Windows, but ... in the docs it says
> > >> that if a change is made to a FileSet, the next backup will be a full
> > >> backup.
> > >>
> > >> However, I am trying to tune a windows fileset, and two things are
> > >> happening:
> > >>
> > >> 1. If I change the FileSet then run a backup, it is an incremental
> > >> backup,
> > > Are you just changing things inside Options clauses? I think it only
> > > notices
> > > changes to the "File = ..." lines.
> > >
> > >
> > >> 2. The incremental backup includes files that are excluded by the
> > >> FileSet, even though an estimate command does _not_ show those files.
> > > That's unexpected. Is there a large difference between the number of
> > > files?
> > >
> > > __Martin
> > >
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