On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Hemant Shah <hjrrs AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
>
> --- On Fri, 7/11/08, Hemant Shah <hjrrs AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
>
>> From: Hemant Shah <hjrrs AT yahoo 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: Friday, July 11, 2008, 11:01 AM
>> O.K. I am at my wits end.
>>
>> I add a new Win XP client and ran a full backup (50 GB),
>> immediately after that I ran a incremental backup.
>> Incremental backup ran as it should, it backed up only few
>> MB of data for changed log files.
>>
>> Then I ran Full and Incremental backup of one of the Linux
>> client that had problem with incremental backup. Again,
>> everything ran as it should, no problems at all.
>>
>> One thing that I did not do was run a fullbackup to tape
>> before running full backup to disk as I had done before.
>>
>> I do not know why things failed the first time. I will have
>> to wait until next full backup (first friday of August) to
>> see if the problem appears again.
>>
>> Thanks for all your help/tips/suggestions.
>>
>> Hemant Shah
>> E-mail: hjrrs AT yahoo DOT com
>>
>>
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> Well, I just could not wait another month to see if the problem re-occurs. I 
> decided to delay the production run of bacula for another month (my old 
> backup systems is still running) and ran another begining of the month 
> schedule this weekend, i.e. full backup to tape, then full backup to disk. On 
> monday the incremental backups were done and they ran without any problem.
>
> I am worried that I was not able to re-create the problem, I did not change 
> anything in the config files except the schedule time. If there is a bug in 
> the new code then it could pop up again anytime, I do not like it when thing 
> start working without any changes to the code or config.
>
> I guess I will have to wait and see. I think I will upgrade the server to 
> 2.4.1. My clients are at 2.2.8.
>
> Thanks again for all your help and input.
>

Is it possible that the other backup program is changing the ctime on the files?

John

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