Hi Bruno, Thank you for the quick reply! The list is actually empty: *list files jobid=93451 *
I tried it for mutiple jobids. For older job with the regular file size the command is working as expected and I get a list of files. On Wednesday, 18 March 2026 at 11:17:18 UTC+1 Bruno Friedmann (bruno-at-bareos) wrote: > 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/628d0869-c2d4-4863-bd92-459d0490ff81n%40googlegroups.com.
