Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Backups increased to 500GB after adding to IPA domain

2012-04-05 15:32:01
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backups increased to 500GB after adding to IPA domain
From: Abdullah Sofizada <asofizada AT emedia.cv DOT net>
To: Pablo Marques <pmarques AT miamilinux DOT net>
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:34:08 -0400
Thanks for the help guys. You are right it was this file right here:

/var/log/lastlog... I will exclude it from our backups.

Your the best thanks again!


On 4/5/2012 1:03 PM, Pablo Marques wrote:
> Abdullah:
>
> Make sure you have this in your fileset definition
>
> Sparse = yes
>
> Also you can do this in bconsole:
>
> estimate job=client_job_whatever listing
>
> it will print the list of files to be backed up.
> Look for big files in the list.
>
>
> Pablo
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Abdullah Sofizada"<asofizada AT emedia.cv DOT net>
> To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 11:21:37 AM
> Subject: [Bacula-users] Backups increased to 500GB after adding to IPA domain
>
> Hi guys, this is a very weird one. I been trying to tackle this for the
> past two weeks or so to no avail...
>
> My director runs on Redhat Rhel 5.5 running bacula 5.0.2. My clients are
> Redhat Rhel 5.5 running bacula 5.0.2.
>
> Each of the bacula clients are less than 15 GB of data. Backups of each
> client were fine. But two weeks ago the backups for each of these
> clients ballooned to 550GB each!!
>
> When I do a df -h... the servers only show 15GB of space used. The one
> difference I noticed in the past two weeks is...I added these servers to
> our new IPA domain. Which in essence is an ldap server using kerberos
> authentication for identity management. This server runs on Rhel 6.2.
>
> I have many other clients which are not part of the IPA domain that are
> backing up just fine. So I'm sure it has something to do with this. I
> have even tried to remove my bacula clients out of the IPA domain, than
> ran a backup. But it still reports at 550GB of data being backed up.
>
> I appreciate the help...
>
>
>


-- 
-Abdullah


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