On 05/05/12 06:48, James Harper wrote:
>>
>> I've been using bacula to backup an exchange 2003 server for some time with
>> success. You could say I'm an happy user :)
>>
>> Lately I noticed bacula started truncating logs on EVERY backup, also
>> incrementals and differentials, when it should not.
>>
>> I'm not sure when this happened. I'm inclined to thing it started when
>> I upgraded to 5.2.6 But I don't have logs handy till them. I can try to
>> reover them from some backup perhaps.
>>
>> The machine is a Windows 2003 R2 server, 32 bit. I used the installer
>> from the project page on sourceforge to install bacula.
>>
>> If needed I can try installing a previous version on this client and see
>> if this makes the problem disappear. Is such a scenario(older client)
>> supported?
>>
>
> That's really strange. The code to do this is pretty straightforward... at
> job init it does this:
>
> switch (context->job_level) {
> case 'F':
> if (context->notrunconfull_option) {
> context->truncate_logs = false;
> } else {
> context->truncate_logs = true;
> }
> break;
> case 'D':
> context->truncate_logs = false;
> break;
> case 'I':
> context->truncate_logs = false;
> break;
> default:
> _DebugMessage(100, "Invalid job level %c\n", context->job_level);
> return bRC_Error;
> }
> break;
>
> Then later it does this:
>
> if (context->truncate_logs) {
> _DebugMessage(100, "Calling HrESEBackupTruncateLogs\n");
> result = HrESEBackupTruncateLogs(hccx);
> if (result != 0) {
> _JobMessage(M_FATAL, "HrESEBackupTruncateLogs failed with error
> 0x%08x - %s\n", result, ESEErrorMessage(result));
> } else {
> _JobMessage(M_INFO, "Truncated database logs for Storage Group
> %s\n", name);
> }
> } else {
> _JobMessage(M_INFO, "Did NOT truncate database logs for Storage
> Group %s\n", name);
> }
>
> And nothing else touches truncate_logs in between that I can see.
>
> Could you please try doing:
>
> set debug level=200 trace=1
>
> for your fd, run a backup, and then email me the resulting trace file (in the
> fd working directory I think). I'm wondering if something has changed and the
> callback ordering is different or something.
>
Thank you for the fast feedback. I'll try this Monday morning and report
back.
Thank you again!
--
Guido Falsi <mad AT madpilot DOT net>
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