On Thursday 11 October 2012 15:15:54 Juan Pablo Lorier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm curious about the behaviour of bacula. Recently I was backing up a
> directory and meanwhile I added more directories to it. to my surprise,
> Bacula backed up everything, not just the files that where in the
> directory. I'm used to other backup and synchronization software that
> create a file list before starting to actually do the backup. This means
> that if new files or directory are added to the target, they are not
> taken into account and if anything is deleted before being backed up, it
> either warns or quit with error. This protects against the possibility
> of believe that something was backed up but actually, was not.
> Can someone confirm this and maybe help me get a work around to this?
> Regards,
>
> Juan Pablo Lorier

That is the standard behaviour with Bacula. If the fileset is amended at all, 
a full backup will be done unless you include the clause

 Ignore FileSet Changes = yes

in the fileset definition

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Gary Stainburn
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Ringways Garages
http://www.ringways.co.uk 

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