>>>>> On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 16:19:51 +0100, Sieu Truc said:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem when bacula tried to backup a folder that contains some
> files changed often.
>
> For example: i backup the folder /var/samba
>
> And for some reason, some big files in this folder are accessed by other
> programs and therefore their attribute "chang" (st_atime) is changed.
Do you mean st_ctime changes?
Are you saying that only the st_ctime changes, but the file contents does not
change?
> As a
> consequence of that, bacula backups that file in the following incremental
> backup.
>
>
> The final result is that those such files eat up all of my disk space.
>
> In my opinion, i have 2 ways to solve that problem but i dont know if
> they're feasible.
> 1) Do a full backup, but incremental backup don't include those files . Is
> it possible to create a fileset for a full backup and another fileset for
> the incrementals.for that case ?
No. You have to use the same fileset for both full and incrementals backups,
otherwise Bacula treats them as separate
> 2) In the fileset, those files will be treated in a different way like the
> configuation below:
>
> FileSet {
> Name = "fs_samba_system"
>
> File = /var/samba
> Include {
> Options {
> signature = SHA1
> onefs = no
> Wildfile = "*badFile.pdf"
> Exclude = yes
> }
> }
> Include {
> File = /var/samba
> Options {
> WildFile = "*badFile.pdf"
> Signature = SHA1
> mtimeonly=yes
> }
> Options {
> Exclude = yes
> RegexFile = ".*"
> }
> }
>
> } Is it right for what i described above ?
>
> and is there another better solution ?
That will probably work.
__Martin
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