On 20/10/2021 18:39, Matt Ivie wrote:
I am running Bareos 16.2.5 under Debian 10 (Buster) and have configured
normal Full, Diff, Inc backups for all of my clients to run on a local
storage daemon. I have configured a remote (within network, but
different building) storage daemon and created Always Incremental jobs
to be stored on that SD. The problem I'm having is that when the
consolidate job runs, one client keeps having all backups from all jobs
included. I can't seem to find a reason why all of the additional
backups are being selected, but they are.
I checked the jobs and they are not always incremental jobs and I've
explicitly set Always Incremental = no on those jobs.
What can I do to verify why the logic of the consolidate job is picking
up these extra jobs?
Matt,
My understanding of Always Incremental is that running the job flagged
that way never causes a non-Incremental backup to be requested (as would
normally be the case when Incr's are promoted to Diff or Full depending
on the config). It doesn't preclude other jobs being run on the same
client and fileset. When a consolidate job is being run, I would expect
it to use all the jobs available to create the best consolidation
possible, ie. I would expect the behaviour you observed, because it will
take into account all versions & changes to the files.
Why is it important to only include the jobs run as 'always incremental'?
Have you tried running the Always Incremental job using a
differently-named Fileset (though possibly defining the same files). I
*think* bareos partitions backups not on the files covered but on the
fileset name.
Lastly, bareos 16 is rather ancient and there have been a lot of bug
fixes since then, together with a few new features. I would encourage
you to update to at least 18, and preferably 20, in the near future. In
my experience I have not had compatibility problems when doing so (given
the usual "dir.ver == store.ver").
Ruth
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