>>>>> On Wed, 07 Aug 2013 19:11:33 -0600, Greg Woods said:
> 
> I'm a new Bacula user, having just set up a system for backing up the
> machines in my house (the storage server is a Raspberry Pi with a 4TB
> external disk drive attached to it).
> 
> My question concerns backup levels. This afternoon, I think while
> learning to use "bat", I accidentally scheduled two consecutive
> incremental backups on my desktop. The first one ran as expected, but
> the second one looks like it basically turned into a full backup, even
> though it still appears in the job listing as an incremental:
> 
> |    13 | anathem       | 2013-08-02 20:37:18 | B    | F     |  800,022
> | 137,247,853,895 | T         |
> |    43 | anathem       | 2013-08-07 14:32:19 | B    | I     |   27,916
> |   2,345,766,355 | T         |
> |    44 | anathem       | 2013-08-07 14:41:45 | B    | I     |  773,678
> | 136,134,397,714 | T         |
> 
> I was under the impression that an incremental would only back up files
> modified since the last backup of any kind, so what made the second
> incremental act like a full?

Look strange to me too -- it would be interesting to see the logs of these
backups.

Also, are you using the "accurate" backup options?

__Martin

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