On 11/10/2010 5:25 AM, Alex Huth wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 08:12:51PM +1100, James Harper wrote:
>>>> on 07.11 (1st Sunday) bacula did a fullbackup like expected. Next monday
>>>> a incremental like expected. On the following tuesday bacula made
>>>> a fullbackup instead of the incremental, because he didn´t find a prior
>>> fullbackup in the catalog.
>>>>
>>>> The fullbackup on the 7th was the second fullback. The first one was the
>>>> initial fullbackup after the setup and start with bacula.
>>>>
>>>> Where do i have to search for the problem?
>>>
>>> Bacula relies heavily on your clock being correct.
>>> If your clock went backwards since it did the first full, it won't be able 
>>> to
>>> find the first full.
>>>
>>> Also, if your retention for your first full has expired, it will purge it
>>> even though another backup depends on it existing.
>>> So perhaps your retention for your first full was too low.
>>>
>>
>> Hmmm... it never occurred to me before but mucking around with the clock on 
>> your director could seriously mess with your day! Advancing the clock by one 
>> year by mistake would probably purge most peoples catalogues.
>>
>> James
>>
> This is not the case, we use NTP on every host and they are running for
> a longer time.

Not to sound trite, and sorry if it does, but have you verified that the 
time is indeed appropriate.  And was your locale affected by recent time 
change?  I know the USA changed time last weekend.

-- 
Dan Langille - http://langille.org/

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