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Re: [Bacula-users] estimate and actual job differ

2009-06-25 11:55:14
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] estimate and actual job differ
From: Silver Salonen <silver AT ultrasoft DOT ee>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:47:47 +0300
On Friday 05 June 2009 16:36:16 Silver Salonen wrote:
> On Thursday 04 June 2009 10:53:03 Christian Gaul wrote:
> > Silver Salonen schrieb:
> > > On Thursday 04 June 2009 10:34:36 Christian Gaul wrote:
> > >   
> > >> Silver Salonen schrieb:
> > >>     
> > >>> Hi.
> > >>>
> > >>> I'm trying to run incremental job of a restored fileset (having 
> > >>> mtimeonly=yes). When I check its estimate, it shows correctly only new 
> > >>>       
> > > files 
> > >   
> > >>> that have been created/modified since restoration. But when I run the 
> > >>>       
> > > actual 
> > >   
> > >>> job, all the files are included in backup.
> > >>>
> > >>> The server is 3.0.0 on FreeBSD, client is 3.0.1 on Windows XP.
> > >>>
> > >>> May it be because all the folders' (but not files') mtime is the date 
of 
> > >>> restoration? And I wonder what is the latter caused by?
> > >>>
> > >>>   
> > >>>       
> > >> Since you modified the fileset to add mtimeonly=yes, did you also add
> > >> Ignore FileSet Changes=yes?
> > >>
> > >> If not, your next backup will default to a Full because the fileset
> > >> doesnt match to the one your last Full was made with.
> > >>     
> > >
> > > Yes, I also have "Ignore FileSet Changes=yes", sorry I didn't mention 
it. 
> And 
> > > if I didn't have it, estimate would show full too, wouldn't it?
> > >
> > >   
> > I dont know if estimate honors that or just takes what you give it. I
> > personally only use estimate when making new filesets (to see if my
> > excludes work correctly). And since using estimate with LVM Snapshots
> > doesnt work anyways because they are not mounted for an estimate job,
> > most of my filesets would show 0 files anyways. Sorry i cant help with 
that.
> 
> I suppose estimate does honor the option ("Ignore FileSet Changes=yes"), 
> because the problem is not in estimate job's files, but rather in actual 
job's 
> files - the actual job just wants to back up all the files, but it should 
not.
> 
> It seems that actual job (or the client of the job) doesn't honor the 
> mtimeonly=yes - it worked OK with my FreeBSD-client when I tested the 
similar 
> situation.
> 
> -- 
> Silver

I submitted a bug report for that:
http://bugs.bacula.org:80/view.php?id=1318

--
Silver

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