Re: [Bacula-users] allways full even if incremental

2009-09-10 Thread Troy Daniels
Hi, Actually bacula uses ctime by default, not mtime. Actually under the 'Level = Incremental' section of the page you linked it states: The File daemon (Client) decides which files to backup for an Incremental backup by comparing start time of the prior Job (Full, Differential, or

Re: [Bacula-users] allways full even if incremental

2009-09-10 Thread Ken Barclay
snip I've seen Bacula compensate for different clock times on servers a few seconds/minutes apart - it logs a line at the top of the job saying it's doing so. However, I've never tried it when the clocks are hours/timezones apart so cant say if it'd compensate then. Just for the

Re: [Bacula-users] allways full even if incremental

2009-09-10 Thread Cedric Tefft
Troy Daniels wrote: Hi, Actually bacula uses ctime by default, not mtime. Actually under the 'Level = Incremental' section of the page you linked it states: The File daemon (Client) decides which files to backup for an Incremental backup by comparing start time of the prior Job

Re: [Bacula-users] allways full even if incremental

2009-09-09 Thread Gerald Leier
hi, On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 19:56 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote: On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:05:19 +0200, Gerald Leier said: hello, i noticed some strange behaviour when backing up one of our linux hosts with bacula. bacula allways backs up everything. if i run it 3 times in a row it

Re: [Bacula-users] allways full even if incremental

2009-09-09 Thread Slava Dubrovskiy
08.09.2009 15:05, Gerald Leier пишет: bacula version is 3.0.1 Try to update up to 3.0.2 -- WBR, Dubrovskiy Vyacheslav smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- Let Crystal Reports handle the

Re: [Bacula-users] allways full even if incremental

2009-09-09 Thread Cedric Tefft
Troy Daniels wrote: Is it possible the files where created with a mtime in the future? From memory, Bacula uses the mtime of the files to determine if they have changed since the last backup ran. If they have a mtime in the future they get backed up every time. If so, using 'touch' on

[Bacula-users] allways full even if incremental

2009-09-08 Thread Gerald Leier
hello, i noticed some strange behaviour when backing up one of our linux hosts with bacula. bacula allways backs up everything. if i run it 3 times in a row it allways produces the same amount of files (Incremental backup) at first i thought it may be because of some timestamps missing.. but

Re: [Bacula-users] allways full even if incremental

2009-09-08 Thread Martin Simmons
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:05:19 +0200, Gerald Leier said: hello, i noticed some strange behaviour when backing up one of our linux hosts with bacula. bacula allways backs up everything. if i run it 3 times in a row it allways produces the same amount of files (Incremental backup) at