You can see what files have been backup'ed by using bconsole list files jobid=12345
On Wednesday, 18 March 2026 at 10:16:57 UTC+1 Patrick Hasler wrote: > We noticed a quiet urgent issue on some of our larger systems where we do > backup for with Bareos. Suddenly every new incremental backup is huge and > also ruffly has the same size every time (See screenshots below). > Usually I would suspect something changing on the system (For example a DB > backup dump cronjob) but as this affects multiple completely unrelated > systems, this can be ruled out. There is no indication of any kind of large > file changes on all the affected hosts, so the question is: What is Bareos > actually backing up here? > > If I go to the restore section to check what files were actually backed up > by the job, the "File selection" section just stays empty, so we don't have > any idea what's in the backups. Due to there huge size we also cannot just > restore them to the client to check their content and as we use encryption > we cannot simply extract the data from the volumes on the Storage Daemon's > side. > > There was no recent Bareos software upgrade, so I don't think that this is > a new software bug. Also the affected clients use different versions of the > File Daemon (24.0.7, 25.0.2), while the Director and Storage Daemon both > use 25.0.2. > > What could be an explanation for this kind of behavior? I mentioned Always > Incremental because I'm pretty sure that the problem is somehow related to > it as the new huge incrementals started showing up after the most recent > VirtualFull. But this is not the first VirtualFull, so I'm not sure why > this behavior suddenly started.[image: bareos_huge_incrementals-1.png] > > [image: bareos_huge_incrementals-2.png] > -- 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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/65497986-3183-49aa-a747-88c2cb82fad6n%40googlegroups.com.
