Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with huge backup - possible bug

2008-10-16 09:25:23
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with huge backup - possible bug
From: "John Drescher" <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: "Piotr Gbyliczek" <pg AT forlinux.co DOT uk>, bacula-users <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:21:40 -0400
> I have few backups over network, which are quite big (50GB and 250GB for
> example).
I do not consider this a huge backup. I have done 2TB+ backups
successfully with bacula.

>I'm expecting them to be quite long jobs, and I'm working on
> getting SD in same cabinet for them, but that ideal solution is not there
> yet. Anyway, I've noticed something which is considered by me as bug.
> Director is scheduling jobs every night, full once a month, differential once
> a week, incremental every day. This is working fine, but every month we
> having problems with full backup. It seems that it runs for ages and that is
> still expected as they big, but every next job for that client seems to be
> upgraded to full regardless that full is running just now.
Does the first job take more than 1 day?

> So, even if full
> job finishes fine, we have still full job in queue, and it runs for ages
> again, causing cascade of full jobs. Anything I'm missing in config to
> prevent this ?? Any 2.4.2 bug ??
>
> Bacula on server :
>
> Version: 2.4.2 (26 July 2008) i686-pc-linux-gnu redhat
>
> Bacula on clients :
>
> Version: 2.2.8 (26 January 2008)  i686-pc-linux-gnu redhat Enterprise release
> Version: 2.2.8 (26 January 2008)  i686-pc-linux-gnu redhat Enterprise release
>
> I can upgrade all to 2.4.3, if you think this will change anything.
>

John

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