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Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate Backups

2010-10-06 14:19:36
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate Backups
From: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 19:17:10 +0100
>>>>> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 21:19:18 +0200, Ralf Gross said:
> 
> Martin Simmons schrieb:
> > >>>>> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:13:59 +0200, Ralf Gross said:
> > > 
> > > All the information about the job tells me that 3 files and a directory 
> > > were
> > > backed up. But the size of the backup (4,478,194,813 bytes) does not fit 
> > > then.
> > > 
> > > I find it hard to check if accurate backups are working as they should.
> > > Especially the bls output below is confusing...
> > > ...
> > > $ bls -V  "vumem008-inc-0663|vumem008-inc-0665" VUMEM008-DISK | grep 
> > > postgres-backups
> > > 
> > > bls JobId 26052: -rw-r--r--   1 ntp      ssl-cert  4478194813 2010-10-04 
> > > 20:18:43  /postgres-backups/testdb-20101004.sql.gz
> > > bls JobId 26052: drwxr-xr-x   7 ntp      ssl-cert        4096 2010-10-04 
> > > 19:10:40  /postgres-backups/
> > > bls JobId 26052: ----------   - -        -                - ---------- 
> > > --------  /postgres-backups/testdb-20100928.sql.gz
> > > bls JobId 26052: ----------   - -        -                - ---------- 
> > > --------  /postgres-backups/testdb-20100929.sql.gz
> > > bls JobId 0: drwxr-xr-x   7 ntp      ssl-cert        4096 2010-10-04 
> > > 19:10:40  /postgres-backups/
> > > bls JobId 0: ----------   - -        -                - ---------- 
> > > --------  /postgres-backups/testdb-20100928.sql.gz
> > > bls JobId 0: ----------   - -        -                - ---------- 
> > > --------  /postgres-backups/testdb-20100929.sql.gz
> > 
> > The files with all the hyphens are deletion markers created by the accurate
> > backup code.  They tell Bacula that the file was in the previous backup but
> > not in this backup.
> 
> So the files were not backed up and they are not in the volume. But
> the job output, the query and list files tells the opposit.
> 
> This may be a better question for the developer list, but why is that?

I would classify the problem with the query and list files as bugs.  I'm not
so sure about the job output because it gives less information, but that could
be classified as a bug too.

__Martin

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