Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Unwarranted promotion to full

2009-05-07 07:06:26
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Unwarranted promotion to full
From: Graham Keeling <graham AT equiinet DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 12:01:32 +0100
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 12:44:17PM +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 07.05.2009 12:20, Mike Ruskai wrote:
> >   On 05/07/2009 05:38, Graham Keeling wrote:
> >> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 05:18:45AM -0400, Mike Ruskai wrote:
> >>   
> >>> With Bacula 2.4.4, adding an exclusion to a file set causes an 
> >>> incremental backup to be promoted to full.
> >>>
> >>> Is this kind of thing fixed in 3.x?
> >>>     
> >> Do you know about the 'Ignore FileSet Changes' option?
> >>
> >>
> >>   
> > I do now, thanks. 
> > 
> > Of course, I don't know if it actually works.
> 
> It does - at least that's my experience.
> 
> >  After cancelling the 
> > superfluous full backup and adding that directive, Bacula still insists 
> > on doing a full backup.
> 
> That's because the change to "Ignore ..." is considered a file set 
> change, that takes place *before* the setting becomes valid.

It seems to me that, with the 'accurate' backup feature, 'Ignore FileSet
Changes' becomes redundant.
Is it true to say that?


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