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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula says it is doing incremental backup but does full backup.

2008-07-08 17:20:35
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula says it is doing incremental backup but does full backup.
From: Hemant Shah <hjrrs AT yahoo DOT com>
To: baculausers <bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 14:20:23 -0700 (PDT)

--- On Tue, 7/8/08, Bruno Friedmann <bruno AT ioda-net DOT ch> wrote:

> From: Bruno Friedmann <bruno AT ioda-net DOT ch>
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula says it is doing incremental backup but 
> does full backup.
> To: 
> Cc: "baculausers" <bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
> Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 2:55 PM
> Ahem ... it seems very stupid the question I ask but
> re-reading all the thread someting appear to me.
> 
> They are 2 distinct pools ... but they are not specify in
> the schedule.
> So 1 one full backup for your pool
> Pool:                  
> "lidp11-FullBackupDiskPool" (From Job FullPool
> override)
> and 1 full for the pool
> Pool:                  
> "lidp11-IncrBackupDiskPool" (From Job IncPool
> override)
> 
> So there's no bug just a mistake :-)
> 
> So your schedule should be
> Run = Level=Full Pool=lidp11-FullBackupDiskPool 1st fri at
> 21:00
>  Run = Level=Incremental Pool=lidp11-IncrBackupDiskPool
> sun-thu at 22:00
> and so on ...
> 
> If I don't make a mistake or a misunderstood, but
> I'm pretty sure to give my brain sufficient time
> and to some test to have this working like this in my
> installations.
> 
> Hope this give you an awnser, and a better backup time !
> 

You are correct, there are two pools for each client (Job) and I specify the 
pool in Job resource because they are different for each Job. A given schedule 
runs multiple jobs.

> 
> 
> 
> Hemant Shah wrote:
> > 
> > Hemant Shah
> > E-mail: hjrrs AT yahoo DOT com
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Tue, 7/8/08, Arno Lehmann
> <al AT its-lehmann DOT de> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Arno Lehmann <al AT its-lehmann DOT de>
> >> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula says it is
> doing incremental backup but does full backup.
> >> To: "baculausers"
> <bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
> >> Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 2:44 AM
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> 07.07.2008 19:46, Hemant Shah wrote:
> >>> Folks,
> >>>
> >>>   I ran my first production backup of bacula
> last
> >> weekend. I did a full backup to tape, then full
> backup to
> >> disk. Next was incremental backup. Bacula said
> that it was
> >> doing incremental backup but it actually did a
> full backup.
> >> I am running bacula 2.4.0. Here are the e-mails I
> received.
> >>> Fullbackup:
> >>>
> >>>   Build OS:              
> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> >> redhat
> >>>   JobId:                  39
> >>>   Job:                   
> >> lidp11-BackupToDisk.2008-07-04_21.04.42
> >>>   Backup Level:           Full
> >>>   Client:                
> "lidp11-fd" 2.4.0
> >> (04Jun08) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu,redhat,
> >>>   FileSet:                "lidp11 Disk
> set"
> >> 2008-07-04 21:04:05
> >>>   Pool:                  
> >> "lidp11-FullBackupDiskPool" (From Job
> FullPool
> >> override)
> >>>   Storage:               
> "lidp11-File"
> >> (From Pool resource)
> >>>   Scheduled time:         04-Jul-2008 21:04:01
> >>>   Start time:             05-Jul-2008 18:14:14
> >>>   End time:               06-Jul-2008 05:01:39
> >>>   Elapsed time:           10 hours 47 mins 25
> secs
> >>>   Priority:               10
> >>>   FD Files Written:       2,417,797
> >>>   SD Files Written:       2,417,797
> >>>   FD Bytes Written:       60,253,728,260
> (60.25 GB)
> >>>   SD Bytes Written:       60,550,530,761
> (60.55 GB)
> >>>   Rate:                   1551.1 KB/s
> >>>   Software Compression:   52.7 %
> >>>   VSS:                    no
> >>>   Storage Encryption:     no
> >>>   Volume name(s):        
> >> Full-lidp11-2008-07-05-18:14:13
> >>>   Volume Session Id:      39
> >>>   Volume Session Time:    1215182293
> >>>   Last Volume Bytes:      60,661,172,712
> (60.66 GB)
> >>>   Non-fatal FD errors:    0
> >>>   SD Errors:              0
> >>>   FD termination status:  OK
> >>>   SD termination status:  OK
> >>>   Termination:            Backup OK
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Incremental Backup:
> >>>
> >>>   Build OS:              
> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> >> redhat
> >>>   JobId:                  70
> >>>   Job:                   
> >> lidp11-BackupToDisk.2008-07-06_22.00.30
> >>>   Backup Level:           Incremental,
> >> since=2008-07-05 18:14:14
> >>>   Client:                
> "lidp11-fd" 2.4.0
> >> (04Jun08) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu,redhat,
> >>>   FileSet:                "lidp11 Disk
> set"
> >> 2008-07-04 21:04:05
> >>>   Pool:                  
> >> "lidp11-IncrBackupDiskPool" (From Job
> IncPool
> >> override)
> >>>   Storage:               
> "lidp11-File"
> >> (From Pool resource)
> >>>   Scheduled time:         06-Jul-2008 22:00:00
> >>>   Start time:             06-Jul-2008 22:05:25
> >>>   End time:               07-Jul-2008 06:26:42
> >>>   Elapsed time:           8 hours 21 mins 17
> secs
> >>>   Priority:               10
> >>>   FD Files Written:       2,096,136
> >>>   SD Files Written:       2,096,136
> >>>   FD Bytes Written:       58,910,683,776
> (58.91 GB)
> >>>   SD Bytes Written:       59,167,747,657
> (59.16 GB)
> >>>   Rate:                   1958.7 KB/s
> >>>   Software Compression:   52.4 %
> >>>   VSS:                    no
> >>>   Storage Encryption:     no
> >>>   Volume name(s):        
> >> Incr-lidp11-2008-07-06-22:05:25
> >>>   Volume Session Id:      68
> >>>   Volume Session Time:    1215182293
> >>>   Last Volume Bytes:      59,271,542,084
> (59.27 GB)
> >>>   Non-fatal FD errors:    0
> >>>   SD Errors:              0
> >>>   FD termination status:  OK
> >>>   SD termination status:  OK
> >>>   Termination:            Backup OK
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> As you can see the amount of data backups is
> almost
> >> the same (60GB).
> >>> This was done over a long weekend, so very few
> files
> >> changed on this filesystem. 
> >>
> >> As there are some jobs between those two you
> reported I
> >> suspect there 
> >> was another attempt to run a full backup which was
> >> cancelled (either 
> >> manually or automatically) to run a backup while
> the first
> >> full was 
> >> still active.
> >>
> >> This would have left an aborted or canceled full
> job in the
> >> catalog, 
> >> forcing the incremental to get upgraded. Is that
> possible?
> > 
> >  No, there were no aborted of canceled jobs, I have
> scheduled them with different priorities so that they do
> not interfere with each other. If the backup was upgraded
> to Full then there would have been a warning message in the
> e-mail, I have seen that happen during my testing.
> > 
> > Here is my schedule, the tape backups run at priority
> 5 and disk backups run at priority 10.
> > 
> > Schedule
> > {
> >   Name = FullBackupToTape
> >   Run = Level=Full Storage=DLT_Drive SpoolData=yes 1st
> fri at 20:00
> > }
> > 
> > Schedule
> > {
> >  Name = BackupToDisk
> >  Run = Level=Full 1st fri at 21:00
> >  Run = Level=Incremental sun-thu at 22:00
> >  Run = Level=Incremental 2nd fri at 22:00
> >  Run = Level=Incremental 3rd fri at 22:00
> >  Run = Level=Incremental 4th fri at 22:00
> >  Run = Level=Incremental 5th fri at 22:00
> >  Run = Level=Incremental 2nd sat at 22:00
> >  Run = Level=Incremental 3rd sat at 22:00
> >  Run = Level=Incremental 4th sat at 22:00
> >  Run = Level=Incremental 5th sat at 22:00
> > }
> > 
> > Schedule
> > {
> >  Name = VmwareToTape
> >  Run = Level=Full Storage=DLT_Drive SpoolData=yes 1st
> fri at 21:00
> > }
> > 
> > Schedule
> > {
> >  Name = VmwareToDisk
> >  Run = Level=Full Fri at 23:00
> > }
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
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