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

2008-07-09 16:31:03
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula says it is doing incremental backup but does full backup.
From: Arno Lehmann <al AT its-lehmann DOT de>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:30:39 +0200
Hi,

09.07.2008 21:37, Ralf Gross wrote:
> John Drescher schrieb:
>> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Hemant Shah <hjrrs AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
>>> --- On Wed, 7/9/08, Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula says it is doing incremental backup but 
>>>> does full backup.
>>>> To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
>>>> Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 5:00 AM
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 14:38:50 -0700
>>>> (PDT), Hemant Shah said:
>>>>> I looked again at the output of the bls commands below
>>>> and I realized that
>>>>> although I specify Incremental backup volume, bls
>>>> lists the files in Full
>>>>> backup volume. The boot strap file is same for all
>>>> disk backups, could this
>>>>> be the problem?
>>>> Can you get a bls listing from the Incremental backup and
>>>> check the stat of a
>>>> few of those files?  Your previous stat was from files in
>>>> the Full backup,
>>>> which might not be in the Incremental backup.
>>> Here are the listings for Full and Incremental without specifying bootstrap 
>>> file:
>>> The begining of the output was different so I grepped for couple of the 
>>> same files from both output so they can be compared:
>>>
>>> [root@lidp11 ~]# bls -c /usr/local/etc/bacula-sd.conf  -V 
>>> Full-lidp11-2008-07-05-18:14:13 lidp11-File  | grep 
>>> /mnt/online_docs/src/bind
>>> bls JobId 0: -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       5021044 2008-07-04 21:18:31 
>>>  /mnt/online_docs/src/bind/bind-9.2.1.tar.gz
>>> bls JobId 0: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       5054652 2008-07-04 21:18:34 
>>>  /mnt/online_docs/src/bind/bind-9.2.2.tar.gz
>>>
>>> [root@lidp11 ~]# bls -c /usr/local/etc/bacula-sd.conf  -V 
>>> Incr-lidp11-2008-07-06-22:05:25 lidp11-File   | grep 
>>> /mnt/online_docs/src/bind
>>> bls JobId 0: -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       5021044 2008-07-06 14:00:44 
>>>  /mnt/online_docs/src/bind/bind-9.2.1.tar.gz
>>> bls JobId 0: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       5054652 2008-07-06 14:00:45 
>>>  /mnt/online_docs/src/bind/bind-9.2.2.tar.gz
>>>
>>> These files have not been changed in several years:
>>>
>> Can someone point out what the times associated with these files are?
>> Time of backup??
> 
> http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Volume_Utility_Tools.html#SECTION003950000000000000000
> | Normally if no options are specified, bls will produce the
> | equivalent output to the ls -l command for each file on the tape.
> 
> Hm, looks strange... This is the time bacula thinks the file was
> changed. I've just looked at one of my volumes with bls and it shows
> the correct time.

Yup... this looks like it's bug report time... it seems that, while 
backing up, Bacula somehow picks the wrong timestamp. Funny.

Arno

> Ralf
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