Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Full Backup vanished from Catalog for no (obvious) reason

2015-05-19 17:10:51
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Full Backup vanished from Catalog for no (obvious) reason
From: Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>
To: Denis Witt <denis.witt AT concepts-and-training DOT de>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 17:08:20 -0400
> On May 19, 2015, at 4:58 AM, Denis Witt <denis.witt AT concepts-and-training 
> DOT de> wrote:
> 
> Signed PGP part
> Hi List,
> 
> I'm using Bacula 5.2.6 (Debian Wheezy). I have several Backup-Jobs like
> this:
> 
> JobDefs {
>   Name = "Backup"
>   Type = Backup
>   Level = Incremental
>   FileSet = "Full Set"
>   Schedule = "Daily"
>   Storage = Tape
>   Messages = Standard
>   Priority = 50
>   Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/%c.bsr"
>   Pool = Full
> }
> 
> Job {
>   Name = "Backup smb"
>   JobDefs = "Backup"
>   Client = smb-fd
>   Incremental Backup Pool = Inc
>   Full Backup Pool = Full
>   Priority = 15
> }
> 
> The (daily) incremental backup works fine. The full backup
> usually works fine also. From time to time it happens that jobs are
> missing in the Catalog.

How is it you determine that the full backup is missing?

> The strange thing about this is that all jobs
> are saying:
> 
> 16-May 18:05 bacula-dir JobId 200: Begin pruning Jobs older than 6
> months .
> 16-May 18:05 bacula-dir JobId 200: No Jobs found to prune.
> 16-May 18:05 bacula-dir JobId 200: Begin pruning Files.
> 16-May 18:05 bacula-dir JobId 200: No Files found to prune.
> 16-May 18:05 bacula-dir JobId 200: End auto prune.
> 
> Volume Retention Time is 12 hours for Incremental, 96 hours for Full.
> 
> The Full Backup takes about 30 hours (for all jobs together), I made a
> backup of the Catalog each day. On Saturday there are some of the
> missing jobs stored in the catalog (with status T). On Sunday some
> of them are gone. I can't spot any reason for this in the logs.
> 
> Any Ideas? Any more information needed?

—
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/





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