Thanks for the comments. I’ve checked, and Incrementals run Tuesday to Sunday, and Fulls on Monday morning, so they aren’t running twice :

 

Schedule {

        Name = "Default"

        Run = Level=Full mon at 1:00

        Run = Level=Incremental tue-sun at 1:00

}

 

Even if I only select the single Incremental backup in BAT, I can still see that files were included twice in that one backup job. I can still see this behaviour if I start a backup manually during the day, when I can confirm that there are no other jobs running.

 

-Mark

 

From: Guy [mailto:guy AT britewhite DOT net] 
Sent: 18 January 2011 10:04
To: Mark Round
Cc: Guy; bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with duplicate files in catalog

 

What's your schedules look like?

 

I would suspect that you have incremental and FULL running at the same time, and if there is not a pre-existing FULL then the incremental is upgraded to a full.

 

I changed the priority of my incrementals so that they don't run while fulls are running.

 

--Guy

 

On 18 Jan 2011, at 09:40, Mark Round wrote:

Hi all,

 

I have a strange issue with one of my Bacula servers, as it seems to be backing up files on my clients twice during a session. I first noticed this on Bacula 2.4.4 (Debian Lenny), but have just upgraded the server to 5.0.2 (Debian Squeeze), and the problem persists. I first noticed it because the disk volumes (I’m using HD backup, not to tape) for full backups were twice the size of the actual systems being backed up – e.g. a system using 4GB ended up with an 8GB backup volume.

 

When I examine the backups with BAT, I can see multiple copies of the same file for each backup job. For example, I have attached a screenshot showing a file (/var/log/messages) on one system – you can see different file Ids, but it’s included twice. I thought it might be a catalog issue, so as an extreme measure, I dropped the catalog DB (MySQL), recreated empty tables and started everything from scratch again. The problem persisted, and I still have files being backed up twice.

 

Just wondering if anyone can shed some light on this issue ? Apart from files being included twice, everything else seems to work OK... I will of course post a follow up with any solutions!

 

Regards,  

 

-Mark

 

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