Hello, I hope you had a good holiday. Mine was mostly lazy, which is good sometimes.
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 05:34:51PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Tuesday 19 August 2008 12:42:22 Graham Keeling wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 09:48:33PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > The above segmentation problem is because you are running a relatively > > > old kernel, which is broken -- or at least the header files and OS calls > > > on your system do not correspond to the reality. > > > > Hello, > > > > OK, thanks, I've got the regressions running on a different machine with a > > newer kernel now, and the segfaults have gone away. > > > > I ran virtual-backup-test, and it told me that it completed OK. > > However, I was suspicious, so I watched carefully what it was doing. > > > > It looks to me as if it is doing exactly what I was seeing with my original > > setup, where the VirtualFull only includes the previous Full and misses out > > the differentials and incrementals. > > > > To prove this, I made a couple of changes to virtual-backup-test (the patch > > is attached to this email). I also made sure that 'Accurate = yes' was set > > on the backup job definitions in the bacula-dir.conf, but I don't think > > that matters. > > > > Before the first full backup, I echoed the date to a file in the area that > > that gets backed up. Then I echoed the (new) date to the same file just > > before the last incremental backup. > > I would then expect the restore before and after the subsequent VirtualFull > > to give the same results, but they don't. > > The test reports the following: > > > > !!!!! virtual-backup-test failed!!! 11:27:21 !!!!! > > !!!!! Restored files differ !!!!! > > Status: backup=0 restore=0 diff=1 > > > > Graham. > > Yes, something is clearly going wrong with your backups. All mine seem to be > working fine. The fact that yours are failing worries me, because it means > we either have a bug (very likely with new code) or we have some simple way > that the configuration can be incorrect. Whatever the case, we will need to > fix it. Hopefully next week on return from vacation, I will have a bit more > time for fixing this and completing my documentation. I wonder - if you try the virtual-backup-test (with my patch from my last email) on your setup, does the test pass or succeed? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
