--- On Tue, 7/15/08, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

> From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula says it is doing incremental backup but 
> does full backup.
> To: hjrrs AT yahoo DOT com
> Cc: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 10:15 AM
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Hemant Shah
> <hjrrs AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> >
> > --- On Fri, 7/11/08, Hemant Shah
> <hjrrs AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Hemant Shah <hjrrs AT yahoo DOT com>
> >> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula says it is
> doing incremental backup but does full backup.
> >> To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> >> Date: Friday, July 11, 2008, 11:01 AM
> >> O.K. I am at my wits end.
> >>
> >> I add a new Win XP client and ran a full backup
> (50 GB),
> >> immediately after that I ran a incremental backup.
> >> Incremental backup ran as it should, it backed up
> only few
> >> MB of data for changed log files.
> >>
> >> Then I ran Full and Incremental backup of one of
> the Linux
> >> client that had problem with incremental backup.
> Again,
> >> everything ran as it should, no problems at all.
> >>
> >> One thing that I did not do was run a fullbackup
> to tape
> >> before running full backup to disk as I had done
> before.
> >>
> >> I do not know why things failed the first time. I
> will have
> >> to wait until next full backup (first friday of
> August) to
> >> see if the problem appears again.
> >>
> >> Thanks for all your help/tips/suggestions.
> >>
> >> Hemant Shah
> >> E-mail: hjrrs AT yahoo DOT com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> > Well, I just could not wait another month to see if
> the problem re-occurs. I decided to delay the production
> run of bacula for another month (my old backup systems is
> still running) and ran another begining of the month
> schedule this weekend, i.e. full backup to tape, then full
> backup to disk. On monday the incremental backups were done
> and they ran without any problem.
> >
> > I am worried that I was not able to re-create the
> problem, I did not change anything in the config files
> except the schedule time. If there is a bug in the new code
> then it could pop up again anytime, I do not like it when
> thing start working without any changes to the code or
> config.
> >
> > I guess I will have to wait and see. I think I will
> upgrade the server to 2.4.1. My clients are at 2.2.8.
> >
> > Thanks again for all your help and input.
> >
> 
> Is it possible that the other backup program is changing
> the ctime on the files?
> 
> John

I don't think so. The other backup system is veritas NetBackup that we have 
been using for 7 years. It has been running along with bacula since I started 
testing bacula and never had problem. First time I noticed the problem was when 
I upgraded to 2.4.0.
 

Hemant Shah
E-mail: hjrrs AT yahoo DOT com


      

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