On 01.06.2017 at 16:48 wrote Douglas K. Rand: > The number of things I like about Bareos are numerous. But perhaps the > sharpest pinch point that we have with Bareos is the safety feature that > any change to a FileSet causes a full backup to be triggered. > > From the docs: >> Any change to the list of the included files will cause Bareos to >> automatically create a new FileSet (defined by the name and an MD5 >> checksum of the Include/Exclude contents). Each time a new FileSet is >> created, Bareos will ensure that the next backup is always a Full >> save. > > And while I understand the safety aspect of that behavior, for our > moderately large 100+ client configuration we are essentially prevented > from making any changes to the FileSet or facing our next backup window > being disastrously large. > > My suggestion is to allow for that safety feature to be turned off. Two > approaches came to mind: > > The simple approach of having a configuration knob to simply turn off > the behavior of doing a full backup on a FileSet change. This is perhaps > the easiest and also most dangerous.
Already there, see http://doc.bareos.org/master/html/bareos-manual-main-reference.html#directiveDirFileSetIgnore%20File%20Set%20Changes > The more complicated but less dangerous approach that I came up with > would be to allow users to explicitly version FileSets. You could make > versions integers and anytime the version number increases a full-backup > is kicked off. This would allow admins to decide when a fileset change > warrants such an update. > > For us, we end up with excludes spread all over the place. Some are in > our FileSet from the initial setup of Bareos, before I fully understood > the quote from the docs above. Some in an exclude file on the director, > some in exclude files on clients. We did the last two when we realized > that FileSet changes would be so disruptive. > > Anyway, an idea to drop in the hopper. We also considered to add an option for "Upgrade to Accurate" instead of "Upgrade to Full". regards, Jörg -- Jörg Steffens [email protected] Bareos GmbH & Co. KG Phone: +49 221 630693-91 http://www.bareos.com Fax: +49 221 630693-10 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Köln | Amtsgericht Köln: HRA 29646 Komplementär: Bareos Verwaltungs-GmbH Geschäftsführer: S. Dühr, M. Außendorf, Jörg Steffens, P. Storz -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
