Bacula-users

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

2010-01-28 10:26:30
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula on Netgear ReadyNAS backs up way too much
From: "John Stoffel" <john AT stoffel DOT org>
To: Ben Laurie <ben AT links DOT org>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:23:19 -0500
Ben> No suggestions?
Ben> Can someone tell me how to list the files that were backed up? Even
Ben> better, how to find out _why_ they were backed up?

list files jobid=#####

should give you a list of files backed up for a job.  Then you can
look at them in more detail using regular unix tools to see what's
going on here.

I'd also recommend that you setup a small test client area where you
can play and do backups.

I wonder if the NAS box updates mtimes when a file is accessed.  Or if
you change something trivial like a directory permission, etc.

So, using the 'list files jobid=####' from above, and grep, you can
look at all the files in a directory at both the time the full was
run, and the time the incr was run, and look at what gets backedup.

You should also be able to query the catalog directly using SQL
commands, but that will take more work, and should probably be done
once you have a more targetted set of file(s) and dir(s) to look at.

John

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