Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-15 09:16:33
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large
From: Eric Bollengier <eric.bollengier AT baculasystems DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:12:11 +0100
Hello,

> Now the bit that is particularly interesting to me is:
> 
> *  FD Bytes Written:       40,119,463,364 (40.11 GB)*
> *  SD Bytes Written:       256,785,265 (256.7 MB) *
> 
> Nothing has been written to the FD.  FD was being read during the backup
> time only.  And the amount shown as "SD Bytes Written" is what I would
> expect this incremental backup to take.  Now the question is why Bacula is
> now showing this in the "list jobs" or "status client" commands?

It sounds to be a bug when the FileDaemon is computing the checksum of the 
file, it updates the Bytes Written counter when it shouldn't.

Looks trivial to fix, but I need some time to test the patch.

Bye

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