Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula on Netgear ReadyNAS backs up way too much

2010-01-27 08:52:35
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula on Netgear ReadyNAS backs up way too much
From: Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>
To: Ben Laurie <ben AT links DOT org>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:50:14 -0500
Ben Laurie wrote:
> Firstly: apologies if this issue is well known, gmane says this list
> either doesn't exist or is not indexed, so I can't search it :-(

Try marc.info

> I installed Bacula 3.0.3 from source on my ReadyNAS as a client to my
> FreeBSD 3.0.3 server. It seems to work OK, but incremental and
> differential backups back up far more than they should (10s of GBs, when
> the changes should be more or less none, or a GB or two at most), is
> this well known, if so, what do I do about it? If not, how would I go
> about diagnosing the problem?

How do you know Bacula is *not* doing the tight thing?

Bacula works on mtime (in general).  If the file has been modified, 
it'll be backed up.

Doesn't sound like a bug so far.

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