Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups always full size

2010-06-16 09:24:29
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups always full size
From: Ryan Novosielski <novosirj AT umdnj DOT edu>
To: Jordi Augé <jordi AT auge DOT cat>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:21:18 -0400
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Jordi Augé wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am having a problem with a Bacula 5.0.1 installation. It's an Ubuntu 10.04 
> server, and Bacula's been installed from the Ubuntu repositories.
> 
> I'm backing up about 165 GB of data onto files and I'd like to make the 
> backups incremental.
> 
> The problem is, while the log shows that it's supposed to be doing an 
> incremental backup, the saved data will always be the full size, even if it 
> hasn't changed since the last full backup.
> 
> This is the log for the first (full) backup: http://pastebin.com/iwagCjVw
> This is the log for the second (incremental) backup: 
> http://pastebin.com/2FGR15qM
> This is the bacula director configuration file: http://pastebin.com/RnKmxcYR

Do you run any process that would change the timestamp on the files? In
one case, for example, I had a machine that was getting backed up
another way as well as Bacula and that other backup was touching all of
the files. If I recall, it uses the "change" time (ls -c) but I could be
wrong.

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