Well, after doing a stat on many, many files, it appears that Nautilus
or some other application (possibly updatedb) is modifying the
timestamps on every file on the system. There is no virus checker as
this is a Linux system.
Placing mtimeonly=yes in the Options seems to take care of the problem.
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 05:31 -0600, Ridley wrote:
> I have Bacula backing up only /home on a Linux workstation running FC6.
> This is the Fileset:
>
> FileSet {
> Name = "Home Set"
> Include {
> Options {
> signature = MD5
> compression = GZIP
> Exclude = yes
> WildFile = "/home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*/Cache/*"
> WildFile = "/home/*/.mozilla/default/*/Cache/*"
> WildFile = "/home/*/.mozilla/eclipse/Cache/*"
> WildFile = "/home/*/.gnome2/epiphany/mozilla/epiphany/Cache/*"
> WildDir = "/home/*/.beagle/TextCache"
> WildDir = "/home/*/.evolution/cache"
> WildDir = "/home/*/.java/deployment/cache"
> }
> File = /home
> }
> # Exclude {
> # }
> }
>
>
> And this is the Schedule:
>
> Schedule {
> Name = "WeeklyCycle"
> Run = Full 1st sun at 23:05
> Run = Differential 2nd-5th sun at 23:05
> Run = Incremental mon-sat at 23:05
> }
>
>
> Unfortunately, even though the Job says it is supposed to perform
> Incrementals mon-sat and the messages say it is an incremental, it uses
> nearly the same amount of space every time:
>
> Job run manually:
> ...
> Backup Level: Full (upgraded from Incremental)
> ...
> FD Bytes Written: 32,908,099,036 (32.90 GB)
> SD Bytes Written: 32,921,345,734 (32.92 GB)
> ...
>
>
> Job run automatically later in day:
> ...
> Backup Level: Incremental, since=2007-03-29 14:05:18
> ...
> FD Bytes Written: 31,923,730,782 (31.92 GB)
> SD Bytes Written: 31,930,104,420 (31.93 GB)
> ...
>
>
> What gives? I know all 32 GB didn't change as they are mostly digital
> pictures in the home directory? Is there something in gnome or FC6 that
> changes the atime on every file?
>
>
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