Hi Gabor,

Thanks - yes, I know. The reason these directories are listed multiple times is 
that on *some* of my servers, they are actually separate file systems; I had 
hoped to use a single file set to cover everything, and that bacula would be 
smart enough to detect and ignore the duplicates.

Thanks for the answer, though!

Regards,
Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gabor Heja [mailto:kakaopor2725 AT stdio DOT hu]
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 3:06 AM
> To: Kevin Keane
> Cc: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Same file, same job, backed up two or three
> times
> 
> 
> 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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