--- On Thu, 7/10/08, 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: Thursday, July 10, 2008, 6:09 AM
> >>>>> On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 21:37:43 +0200, Ralf
> Gross said:
> >
> > 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.
>
> The bls output shows the ctime that was recorded on the
> volume, which should
> be the ctime from the filesystem when the file was backed
> up. By default, a
> file will be included in an incr/diff if its either is
> mtime or ctime are
> newer than the last full backup of the job.
>
> I suggest checking with
>
> stat /mnt/online_docs/src/bind/bind-9.2.1.tar.gz
root@lidp11 ~]# stat /apex/online_docs/src/bind/bind-9.2.1.tar.gz
File: `/apex/online_docs/src/bind/bind-9.2.1.tar.gz'
Size: 5021044 Blocks: 9832 IO Block: 8192 regular file
Device: 15h/21d Inode: 663370 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2008-07-06 22:09:42.847997000 -0500
Modify: 2002-08-28 10:43:22.000000000 -0500
Change: 2008-07-06 14:00:44.104163000 -0500
The ctime is the time of incremental backup and is also the time in bls listing
for incremental backup.
>
> __Martin
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