True, I think so too. On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Martin Simmons <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 04:51:57 +0800, Gi Dot said: > > > > Hi all, > > > > The other day I was running a full and differential backup back to back > on > > a database server, and I was surprised to see the size of both backups > are > > not that far off. The full backup size was about 37G, and the > differential > > backup that runs after that was about 30G. Excerpt from the log: > > > > JobId: 521 > > Job: DatabaseBackup_Server1.2016-11-19_07.49.07_55 > > Backup Level: Full > > > > JobId: 522 > > Job: DatabaseBackup_Server1.2016-11-19_07.59.04_02 > > Backup Level: Differential, since=2016-10-23 23:00:02 > > > > Seems like the differential backup was done by comparing the differences > > with the full backup done back in October 23rd, instead of the last full > > backup done just before. Is this even correct? The full backup that it > > compares with was the last full job before I ran the full backup on Nov > > 19th (jobid 521). > > I think the problem is that the differential job started while the new full > job was running. That caused it to choose the old full job for comparison, > even though it didn't back up any files until after the new full job > finished > (presumably due to concurrency restrictions). > > __Martin > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >
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