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Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with estimate command ignoring client

2008-05-23 13:30:13
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with estimate command ignoring client
From: Ryan Novosielski <novosirj AT umdnj DOT edu>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 13:29:50 -0400
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Can someone else try this for me and see if it is the case with their setup?

=R

Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> Any ideas what's going on here? I'm running Bacula 2.2.8 with MySQL, and
> I'm attempting the following command:
> 
> *estimate job=SystemArchive client=arcturus-fd
> 
> ...you can see what happens next:
> 
> Using Catalog "umd_CATALOG"
> Connecting to Client catalyst-fd at catalyst:9102
> 
> From the manual, this IS correct syntax:
> 
> ---
> estimate
>     Using this command, you can get an idea how many files will be
> backed up, or if you are unsure about your Include statements in your
> FileSet, you can test them without doing an actual backup. The default
> is to assume a Full backup. However, you can override this by specifying
> a level=Incremental or level=Differential on the command line. A Job
> name must be specified or you will be prompted for one, and optionally a
> Client and FileSet may be specified on the command line. It then
> contacts the client which computes the number of files and bytes that
> would be backed up. Please note that this is an estimate calculated from
> the number of blocks in the file rather than by reading the actual
> bytes. As such, the estimated backup size will generally be larger than
> an actual backup.
> 
>     Optionally you may specify the keyword listing in which case, all
> the files to be backed up will be listed. Note, it could take quite some
> time to display them if the backup is large. The full form is:
> 
>     estimate job=<job-name> listing client=<client-name>
>            fileset=<fileset-name> level=<level-name>
> 
>     Specification of the job is sufficient, but you can also override
> the client, fileset and/or level by specifying them on the estimate
> command line.
> 
> http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Bacula_Console.html#SECTION002150000000000000000
> ---
> 
> Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks for any help you can provide.
> 

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