Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] missing a file during verification

2012-02-08 14:40:32
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] missing a file during verification
From: "Doug Sampson" <dougs AT dawnsign DOT com>
To: "Martin Simmons" <martin AT lispworks DOT com>, <bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 11:36:52 -0800
> >>>>> On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 17:48:51 -0800, Doug Sampson said:
> >
> > I've outputted a list of files from this and compared with the bls
> > output.
> > Even though the bconsole 'list' files reports 989 lines, there are
> > actually only 988 lines as far as I can determine. The output
between
> > the
> > bls output and the list output is identical in every respect except
for
> > the lines of output reported by each. 988 versus 989.
> >
> > Is this a VSS error?
> 
> It looks like a bug/misfeature in verify of a VSS job.  The problem is
> that
> the count of files in a VSS backup includes a special object called
> job_metadata.xml, but this isn't a real file so verify can't find it.
> 
> I'm not convinced that VolumeToCatalog verify can be used reliably
with
> VSS
> jobs anyway though, because it will be verifying the current state
rather
> than
> the snapshot.  That can lead to false mismatches, even without the
> job_metadata.xml issue.
> 

I suspected that but I wanted to work my way through to the end to
confirm that there wasn't any data missing from the backup other than
the job_metedata.xml file. Thanks for your input, Martin- much
appreciated!

~Doug

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