Hello,
19.09.2008 07:04, Ken Barclay wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for your response Martin.
>
> I did check the logs and found nothing of interest.
> I did the @output as you suggested and sure enough /share and all its
> contents were included.
Interesting coincidence... I had a customer report something similar
recently - a certain directory that *should* have been included was not.
Investigation goes slowly, so I don't know anything definitive yet,
but as far as I know, cleaning up the fileset definition, reloading,
and then verifying the job with 'estimate listing' seemed to show that
everything was picked up.
Sounds like a miracle, a bug that only triggers in certain situations
which I don't understand yet, or a configuration issue (perhaps as
simple as forgetting the 'reload' after a previous configuration
change) - I'm still working on it, or rather, my customer is, with my
advice. I'll let you know if I find something that looks like a Bacula
issue.
By the way - my customer's problem occurred on a windows server FD.
> In my Fileset, the only Exclude is for /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs - so I
> don't think that is a problem.
> Your final suggestion re: strace -f -p might be a job for Monday, if
> necessary.
> In the meantime, yesterday I changed the schedule to force a Full backup
> last night hoping that this would put things back into sync. The Full
> backup was successful and included everything that had previously been
> missing. What will be interesting is tonight's Incremental. Just have
> to wait and see. Should all go well, I'll let you know. If not, then
> I'll 'strace' on Monday. [Fingers crossed].
From what I know now, I guess you'll find the jobs works as it should
- looks like one of those issues where, once you look closely,
everything works correctly (though the files in question were really
never backed up previously).
Good luck!
Arno
> Thanks again,
> Ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:bacula-users-bounces AT lists.sourceforge DOT net] On Behalf Of
> Martin
> Simmons
> Sent: Friday, 19 September 2008 2:57 AM
> To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Files/Directories missing from backup
>
> >>>>> On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:41:56 +0700 (ICT), Ken Barclay said:
> >
> > On one of my servers there's a directory called /share , inside /share
> > there are departmental folders such as Marketing, Finance, IT, etc. and
> > within those directories there are multiple directories and files. The
> > contents of these directories change on a daily basis, so will therefore
> > be included in each nights back up.
> >
> > /share is included in the FileSet, and in the last Full backup on 22
> > August, the entire contents of /share was backed up (as expected).
> >
> >
> >
> > This morning I was asked to restore a single file from 10 September
> > located within the /share directory, and guess what - there is no /share
> > at all! The other directories (/var, /etc, ....) are there but no
> /share.
> >
> >
> >
> > I then checked every Differential and Incremental backup since 22 August
> > and sure enough there is no /share directory. Strange!
> >
> > Next, I had a look at the backups for 20 & 21 August (both Incremental)
> > and would you believe it, /share and its contents were backed up just
> > fine. On August 22 there was a Full backup - everything backed up fine,
> > but since then /share hasn't been backing up.
> >
> >
> >
> > Each nights back up Message has been Backup OK, and there has been
> > nothing like "/share is a different filesystem. Will not descend ..etc."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I just did an 'estimate job' in bconsole and the number of files and
> bytes
> > equates roughly to what was backed up in the last Full on 22 August.
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have any clues about this one?
>
> Did you check the logs of the backups for any messages about this?
>
> Does the listing option in the estimate command show files in /share? (You
> can use the @output command to capture the output into a file.)
>
> Does the fileset have any exclude options that might be accidentally
> matching
> files in /share?
>
> You could try running attaching strace -f -p to the bacula-fd process
> during a
> backup to see if it even looks at /share.
>
> __Martin
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