Hi Kevin,

The directories should be backed up recursively, so you do not need to
specify each directory (/boot, /var, ...) inside it. You would need to
specify the directories only when you have more than one filesystems
mounted and have specified the "onefs=yes" inside "Options{}".

So in your case the /var/log/messages is backed up three times because of
these rules:
 File = /
 File = /var
 File = /var/log

The first one would be enough for your whole system.

Regards,
 Gabor

Ps. sorry for the duplicate e-mail, I have not cc-ed the list before.


On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 02:34:46 -0700, Kevin Keane <subscription AT kkeane DOT com>
wrote:
> I have been troubleshooting how the backup for a system with total disk
> usage of 9GB could produce a 24 GB backup.
> 
> What I found is that apparently, bacula backs up the same file two or
> sometimes three times within a job. On this system, all data is contained
> in a single file system. The file set contains root, as well as several
> subdirectories. Apparently, the problem occurs for directories that are
> named explicitly, and also included through a parent. For instance,
> /var/log/messages got backed up three times with the file set listed
below
> - probably because it is included through /, /var and /var/log.
> 
> Bacula-fd: Bacula 2.4.2 (on CentOS 5.4)
> Bacula-dir (and bacula-sd): Bacula 3.0.3 (on OpenSUSE 11.2)
> 
> Is that because of an incompatibility between 2.4 and 3.0, or am I doing
> something else wrong?
> 
> 
> FileSet {
>   Name = "Linux Full Set"
>   Include {
>     Options {
>       signature = MD5
>     }
>     File = /
>     File = /boot
>     File = /home
>     File = /srv
>     File = /usr
>     File = /var
>     File = /var/log
>     File = /var/lib/bacula
>   }
>   Exclude {
>     File = /proc
>     File = /dev
>     File = /sys
>     File = /tmp
>     File = /.journal
>     File = /.fsck
>     File = /srv/installimage
>     File = /var/lock
>     File = /var/run
>     File = /var/tmp
>     File = /var/cache
>     File = /var/spool/postfix/public
>     File = /var/spool/amavis/virusmails
>     File = /var/spool/postfix/private
>     File = /var/lib/mysql
>     File = /var/lib/dhcp/dev/log
>     File = /var/lib/php5
>     File = /var/lib/named/dev/log
>     File = /var/lib/samba/winbindd_privileged/pipe
>     File = /var/lib/zypp/cache
>     File = /var/lib/zmd
>     File = /var/lib/ntp
>     File = /var/lib/logrotate.status
>     File = /var/spool/cron/lastrun
>     File = /var/log/zmd-*
>     File = /var/log/ntp
>     File = /var/log/httpd/error.*
>     File = /virtual
>   }
> }
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