Excelent, yes we use Accurate and we did some testing and it does appear the verify does pick them up also,
Brock Palen [email protected] www.mlds-networks.com Websites, Linux, Hosting, Joomla, Consulting > On May 18, 2026, at 6:15 AM, Andreas Rogge <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 13.05.26 um 19:22 schrieb 'Brock Palen' via bareos-users: >> Now lets say disaster strikes. Drive eats the tape with incrementals 5, 7, >> and 10. >> You purge that volume because the data is now not recoverable and you have >> holes in your backup history. > > I'd rather delete these volumes, because the physical tapes are gone. > Nevertheless, pruning the associated jobs (both "prune volume" and "delete > volume" imply that) is the right thing to do. > >> On the next backup it looks like by default Bareos will NOT detect there are >> files on the client not in the catalog if they were last updated before the >> most recent backup (Incremental 20). > > If you have accurate disabled that is true. I very much hope you have > accurate mode enabled so these files will be picked up. > If you don't have accurate enabled yet, you can just enable it on an existing > set of jobs and it will just start to work. > >> So questions, >> 1. Verify that is correct understanding > Sounds right, yes. > >> 2. Does adding accurate = yes capture those files getting them in the next >> backup? > It will (besides other things) make the agent backup all files that are not > in the catalog yet, no matter how old these are. > >> 3. Does DiskToCatalog Verify job detect that there are missing files in the >> catalog? > > I think this should be detected, but I never tried it myself. > > Best Regards, > Andreas > -- > Andreas Rogge [email protected] > Bareos GmbH & Co. KG Phone: +49 221-630693-86 > http://www.bareos.com > > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Köln | Amtsgericht Köln: HRA 29646 > Komplementär: Bareos Verwaltungs-GmbH > Geschäftsführer: Stephan Dühr, Jörg Steffens, Philipp 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 view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/dd6903f4-2b3d-4246-87e4-98d9e9e475b0%40bareos.com. -- 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/1F29C1C6-D437-4B66-9604-C4E001C22FEE%40mlds-networks.com.
