>>>>> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:39:16 +0200, Christoph Haas said: > > On Wednesday 25 October 2006 23:18, Martin Simmons wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:00:09 +0200, Christoph Haas said: > > > Actually I haven't changed my config in months. And after each full > > > backup I can run dbcheck and it will remove a few ten thousand File > > > entries. So I suspected that some part of Bacula misses to remove old > > > database rows. And it didn't crash either. The storage daemon dies > > > from time to time though. But that should keep altering the database > > > directly anyway. > > > > Yes, it sounds like a bug to me. Which database is that? Did Bacula do > > any pruning during the night? > > MySQL 4.1.11a on Debian Sarge. I intend to switch to PostgreSQL 8.1 anyway > when I upgrade that machine to Debian Etch. I'm not entirely happy with > MySQL.
OK. Hopefully it doesn't lose SQL commands though! I think you should upgrade to Bacula 1.38.11 before investigating any further, because that contained a bug fix for pruning (see http://bugs.bacula.org/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=0000613). > > It would be useful to remove the cron job one night and run dbcheck > > manually to list the orphaned File records and find the JobIds. > > Okay. How would I do that? Doesn't dbcheck just tell me the quantity of > orphaned records? I just tried it: > > Select function number: 8 > > Checking for orphaned File entries. This may take some time! > Found 176 orphaned File records. > > That's from last night where I incrementally backed up three hosts. 6 jobs > were pruned according to the logs but no files were found to prune. If you switch on verbose mode then it will ask if you want to list them. > > Then > > try to find out when the corresponding records with the same JobId were > > removed from the Job table (since that's what orphaned means for a File > > record). > > Uhm. Any hint on what to look for? The verbose file listing includes the jobid, so the first thing to check is that this is a sensible value and then check in your logs to see if that job was old enough to be pruned. __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
