Due to some poor foresight on the part of the implementers of the "last" utilities, the lastlog is stored as a sparse file where the specified size of the sparse file is based on the highest possible user on the system. On a 64-bit system, that means you get a file which is reported by "ls" and seen by Bacula as 1254130450140 bytes (1.14 TB) in size.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -l /var/log/lastlog -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1254130450140 Jul 13 07:34 /var/log/lastlog [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ du -k /var/log/lastlog 44 /var/log/lastlog When I run backups of the root filesystem, my tape shows that the sparse measurement rather than the real measurement: +---------+------------+-----------+-------------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | VolBytes | VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten | +---------+------------+-----------+-------------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ | 15 | BU6115 | Append | 1,267,501,546,360 | 1,280 | 604,800 | 1 | 15 | 0 | AIT4 | 2006-07-07 05:21:16 | +---------+------------+-----------+-------------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ ...oh if it was only true... I have not specified sparse=yes in my FileSet because I didn't want to check every file for sparseness, just that one file. In addition, I would expect that the default behavior of Bacula, and the documentation seems to imply, that Bacula will backup the null-space inside a sparse file and so it should have filled my tape with zeros. Bacula didn't fill my tape with zeros, but reported VolBytes inaccurately. Does sparse=yes only affect the reporting of the file size, not how the file is backed up? What would be the best way of dealing with this issue? It looks like all users running Bacula on a 64-bit system will run into this problem soon. Thanks. Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
