Excelent, yes we use Accurate  and we did some testing and it does appear the 
verify does pick them up also, 


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> 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
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