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[Bacula-users] Unnecessarily duplicating backups

2016-07-19 09:08:17
Subject: [Bacula-users] Unnecessarily duplicating backups
From: Ian Douglas <ian AT zti.co DOT za>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 14:49:01 +0200
Hi All

It seems to me that Bacula makes unnecessary duplicate backups.

I have
1. Daily incremental
2. Monthly differential
3. Annual full.

However one of the backups is over 3.5 TB, and the system only manages about 
100GB/hour.

So the differential backup (in this case) ran for more than 24 hours. I also 
had a others in the queue that pushed the time to when it could get to the 
daily incremental to over 2 days later.

So...
1. Bacula did the differential, starting on Saturday.
2. today it did an incremental, for stuff added since Saturday.
3. it then did exactly the same files as in (2) again. I was watching.

I'm assuming this is because Bacula decides WHAT to back up at the time the 
job is scheduled, instead of when it is actually run.

Is that correct, or is something else wrong?

thanks, Ian
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