I should have been clearer. I meant that I was apparently
seeing the same problem on at least one setup where the FD,
DIR and SD versions were all the same.
I understand that, but deploying 7.0.5 would be
significantly harder in my environment than moving to 5.2.13
so it would be something of a last resort.
I don't think you're saying that I need to move to the
latest version to get reliable backups, are you?
If anyone knew of a bug in 5.2.x (or for that matter in
5.0.x) that caused differentials to be incomplete, I'd
obviously feel differently (but then, I imagine Red Hat would
too, as 5.2.13 is what they are shipping in their most recent
release).
As stated, I have seen significant data loss when
attempting to restore a production system. This is not
theoretical, although perhaps the subject line led you astray.
I don't believe this is the problem I'm seeing. For
example, from my original mail:
| 9,929 |
srv-c701-backup | 2015-05-01 23:05:04 | B | I |
91,030 | 3,450,906,888 | T
| 9,938 |
srv-c701-backup | 2015-05-02 23:05:03 | B | D |
112 | 2,184,302 | T
The 91,000 files in job 9929 were NOT all deleted before
job 9938 was run, but do not appear in that job.
-- Ian