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Re: [Bacula-users] backup is incremented to full backup after a bare metal restore

2013-02-22 11:26:47
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backup is incremented to full backup after a bare metal restore
From: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:24:32 GMT
>>>>> On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:58:02 +0100, morlix  said:
> 
> Hello bacula users,
> 
> three days ago one of my servers raid 5 died completly and i had to do a
> bare metal restore.
> 
> This restore works fine, except the thing that i got two messages about
> directories which already exists during the restore and a logfile which
> could not be restored with the original filesize.
> But i think this was no real problem.
> 
> Then i saw that my data partition was 100% full. So i decided to do a
> verify job (DiskToCatalog).
> 
> This verify shows that two new files, one new directory exist and two
> directories are in the catalog but not on the disk.
> I verified that this is everything ok, restored the bootloader and rebooted.
> 
> After that the server works as expected and everything was fine.
> 
> But now i recognized that the backup jobs running since then always
> wants to backup everything (full backup), but they should be incremental.
> 
> In the messages of the client i didn't see a message that the backup
> level was incremented to full because of something.
> 
> Here some informations about my systems.
> 
> Director: Gentoo Linux x86_64, bacula 5.2.12
> Client: Gentoo Linux x86_64, bacula 5.2.12
> 
> As this client is our video server it has a lot of data (approx 3TB), so
> i can't allow a full backup every day.

This is normal -- a restore will modify the ctime of every file, so they will
appear to be newer than the last full backup.

You could fix this by doing a backup with level=full.  You could also try
using the mtimeonly option, but that is dangerous because it will fail to back
up metadata updates.

__Martin

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