Re: [Bacula-users] allways full even if incremental

2009-09-10 Thread Cedric Tefft
Troy Daniels wrote: > Hi, > >>> >> Actually bacula uses ctime by default, not mtime. >> > > Actually under the 'Level = Incremental' section of the page you > linked it states: > > "The File daemon (Client) decides which files to backup for an > Incremental backup by comparing start time of th

Re: [Bacula-users] allways full even if incremental

2009-09-10 Thread Ken Barclay
> > I've seen Bacula compensate for different clock times on servers a few > seconds/minutes apart - it logs a line at the top of the job saying > it's > doing so. > > However, I've never tried it when the clocks are hours/timezones apart > so cant say if it'd compensate then. > Just for the

Re: [Bacula-users] allways full even if incremental

2009-09-09 Thread Troy Daniels
Hi, >> > Actually bacula uses ctime by default, not mtime. > Actually under the 'Level = Incremental' section of the page you linked it states: "The File daemon (Client) decides which files to backup for an Incremental backup by comparing start time of the prior Job (Full, Differential, o

Re: [Bacula-users] allways full even if incremental

2009-09-09 Thread Cedric Tefft
Troy Daniels wrote: > Is it possible the files where created with a mtime in the future? > > From memory, Bacula uses the mtime of the files to determine if they > have changed since the last backup ran. > > If they have a mtime in the future they get backed up every time. > > If so, using 'touch

Re: [Bacula-users] allways full even if incremental

2009-09-09 Thread Slava Dubrovskiy
08.09.2009 15:05, Gerald Leier пишет: > bacula version is 3.0.1 > Try to update up to 3.0.2 -- WBR, Dubrovskiy Vyacheslav smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- Let Crystal Reports handle the re

Re: [Bacula-users] allways full even if incremental

2009-09-09 Thread Troy Daniels
Hi, >> > it is running them as incremental. > > Is it possible the files where created with a mtime in the future? From memory, Bacula uses the mtime of the files to determine if they have changed since the last backup ran. If they have a mtime in the future they get backed up every time.

Re: [Bacula-users] allways full even if incremental

2009-09-08 Thread Gerald Leier
hi, On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 19:56 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote: > > On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:05:19 +0200, Gerald Leier said: > > > > hello, > > > > i noticed some strange behaviour when backing up > > one of our linux hosts with bacula. > > > > bacula allways backs up everything. if i run it > >

Re: [Bacula-users] allways full even if incremental

2009-09-08 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:05:19 +0200, Gerald Leier said: > > hello, > > i noticed some strange behaviour when backing up > one of our linux hosts with bacula. > > bacula allways backs up everything. if i run it > 3 times in a row it allways produces the same amount > of files (Incremental ba

[Bacula-users] allways full even if incremental

2009-09-08 Thread Gerald Leier
hello, i noticed some strange behaviour when backing up one of our linux hosts with bacula. bacula allways backs up everything. if i run it 3 times in a row it allways produces the same amount of files (Incremental backup) at first i thought it may be because of some timestamps missing.. but th