Yes, in John Lockard's output below, jobid 5400 should be the previous Full job (probably a Virtual Full because it's jobid is higher than the others).
It would be useful to see the output from that jobid and look at its Media and JobMedia entries. __Martin >>>>> On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:02:27 -0400, Thomas Lohman said: > > Interesting - I just looked at one of our Bacula servers that has some > jobs that back up data that rarely if ever changes. I looked at one > particular job that just did a new Virtual Full. Looking at all the > previous jobs between this newest Virtual Full and the last one it had > done X days ago, none of those incr/diff jobs had any files backed up. > So, this sounds like your scenario but it works fine here. Looking at > our logs, I see the following message for the example job I mentioned > > Found 3 files to consolidate into Virtual Full. > > This includes the 3 files from the previous FULL - which are the only > files in the job. > > So, the question is why does it not include the file count from your > previous FULL when making this calculation. > > The code in question is in vbackup.c - the create_bootstrap_file method > which calls a method in bsr.c which is where the "No files found to > read. No bootstrap file written" message is being generated. > > cheers, > > --tom > > > I'm running into this issue with Virtual Full backups. I think I know > > what the issue is but am not 100% positive and want to bounce this idea... > > > > I have a Full backup, then some number of Incrementals. Every week I > > run a Virtual full, rolling in all but the most recent 10 Incremental > > backups. > > My Virtual Fulls are failing with "No files found to read/Found 0 > > files to consolidate into Virtual Full" > > > > 29-Jul 02:36 bacula-dir JobId 5622: Start Virtual Backup JobId 5622, > > Job=Taco-Data-A.2025-07-25_21.15.00_33 > > 29-Jul 02:36 bacula-dir JobId 5622: Consolidating > > JobIds=5400,4698,4728,4758,4788,4818 > > 29-Jul 02:36 bacula-dir JobId 5622: No files found to read. No > > bootstrap file written. > > 29-Jul 02:36 bacula-dir JobId 5622: Found 0 files to consolidate into > > Virtual Full. > > 29-Jul 02:36 bacula-dir JobId 5622: Fatal error: Could not get or > > create the FileSet record. > > > > What I think is happening is that my disk volume is not being updated > > (no changes to files, no new files, no files deleted), and when an > > incremental backup runs it stores nothing on the backup "tape". > > > > 05-Jul 20:19 bacula-dir JobId 4728: Start Backup JobId 4728, > > Job=Taco-Data-A.2025-06-30_19.10.00_42 > > 05-Jul 20:19 bacula-dir JobId 4728: Connected to Storage "FileChanger" > > at si-scott.miserver.it.umich.edu:9103 > > <http://si-scott.miserver.it.umich.edu:9103/> with TLS > > 05-Jul 20:19 bacula-dir JobId 4728: Using Device "FileChanger-Dev10" > > to write. > > 05-Jul 20:19 bacula-dir JobId 4728: Connected to Client "taco" at > > taco.si.umich.edu:9102 <http://taco.si.umich.edu:9102/> with TLS > > 05-Jul 20:19 taco JobId 4728: Connected to Storage at > > si-scott.miserver.it.umich.edu:9103 > > <http://si-scott.miserver.it.umich.edu:9103/> with TLS > > 05-Jul 20:19 bacula-dir JobId 4728: Sending Accurate information to > > the FD. > > 05-Jul 20:23 bacula-sd JobId 4728: Elapsed time=00:01:42, Transfer > > rate=0 Bytes/second > > 05-Jul 20:23 bacula-sd JobId 4728: Sending spooled attrs to the > > Director. Despooling 0 bytes ... > > 05-Jul 20:23 bacula-dir JobId 4728: Bacula bacula-dir 15.0.3 (25Mar25): > > Build OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu ubuntu 24.04 > > JobId: 4728 > > Job: Taco-Data-A.2025-06-30_19.10.00_42 > > Backup Level: Incremental, since=2025-06-25 09:16:04 > > Client: "taco" 15.0.3 (25Mar25) > > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu,ubuntu,22.04 > > FileSet: "Taco-Data-A" 2025-05-02 15:31:06 > > Pool: "Taco-Incr" (From Job IncPool override) > > Catalog: "MyCatalog" (From Client resource) > > Storage: "FileChanger" (From Pool resource) > > Scheduled time: 30-Jun-2025 19:10:00 > > Start time: 05-Jul-2025 20:19:45 > > End time: 05-Jul-2025 20:23:12 > > Elapsed time: 3 mins 27 secs > > Priority: 10 > > FD Files Written: 0 > > SD Files Written: 0 > > FD Bytes Written: 0 (0 B) > > SD Bytes Written: 0 (0 B) > > Rate: 0.0 KB/s > > Software Compression: None > > Comm Line Compression: None > > Snapshot/VSS: no > > Encryption: no > > Accurate: yes > > Volume name(s): > > Volume Session Id: 619 > > Volume Session Time: 1749606283 > > Last Volume Bytes: 2,295 (2.295 KB) > > Non-fatal FD errors: 0 > > SD Errors: 0 > > FD termination status: OK > > SD termination status: OK > > Termination: Backup OK > > > > So, when it comes time to consolidate it grabs each incremental and > > finds there's nothing, and the Virtual Full fails. I can find these > > "tapes" in my Jobs table, but no joining entries in Media, or JobMedia. > > > > If I scan through the "tape" on the filesystem, I find backups on the > > tape, only for jobs which actually wrote files. > > > > The end result is that I have a Full backup, which is getting > > increasingly older, VirtualFulls which fail, so no new Full backup, > > and once I hit a point where the Full backup hits its prune-date it > > gets pruned from the file table. After that, the database knows there > > was a successful Full, and incrementals still run, but now every file > > the incremental comes across is "brand new" and my incremental backup > > is basically a Full backup. > > > > > > -- > > - Adaptability -- Analytical --- Ideation ---- Input ----- Belief - > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > John M. 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