I've attached the job log for one of these jobs. Nothing unusual from what I can tell.
>Are you sure you didn't get caught by the fact that after consolidation, history is rewritten, and older jobid get new files in due to the consolidation? These are not consolidation jobs, but the regular running backup jobs. Consolidation jobs would start with "Start Virtual Backup" in the joblog. This is also visible by the timestamps in the screenshots. Consolidation jobs keep their original start/end time. On Wednesday, 18 March 2026 at 11:32:24 UTC+1 Bruno Friedmann (bruno-at-bareos) wrote: > You may want to check what the joblog contain. > > All my AI job are showing the files backup'ed when there's some, and also > all my volumes show me jobid stored on. > > Are you sure you didn't get caught by the fact that after consolidation, > history is rewritten, and older jobid get new files in due to the > consolidation ? > > On Wednesday, 18 March 2026 at 11:27:35 UTC+1 Patrick Hasler wrote: > >> Hi Bruno, >> >> Thank you for the quick reply! The list is actually empty: >> *list files jobid=93451 >> * >> >> I tried it for mutiple jobids. For older job with the regular file size >> the command is working as expected and I get a list of files. >> >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, 18 March 2026 at 11:17:18 UTC+1 Bruno Friedmann >> (bruno-at-bareos) wrote: >> >>> You can see what files have been backup'ed by using >>> bconsole >>> list files jobid=12345 >>> >>> On Wednesday, 18 March 2026 at 10:16:57 UTC+1 Patrick Hasler wrote: >>> >>>> We noticed a quiet urgent issue on some of our larger systems where we >>>> do backup for with Bareos. Suddenly every new incremental backup is huge >>>> and also ruffly has the same size every time (See screenshots below). >>>> Usually I would suspect something changing on the system (For example a >>>> DB backup dump cronjob) but as this affects multiple completely unrelated >>>> systems, this can be ruled out. There is no indication of any kind of >>>> large >>>> file changes on all the affected hosts, so the question is: What is Bareos >>>> actually backing up here? >>>> >>>> If I go to the restore section to check what files were actually backed >>>> up by the job, the "File selection" section just stays empty, so we don't >>>> have any idea what's in the backups. Due to there huge size we also cannot >>>> just restore them to the client to check their content and as we use >>>> encryption we cannot simply extract the data from the volumes on the >>>> Storage Daemon's side. >>>> >>>> There was no recent Bareos software upgrade, so I don't think that this >>>> is a new software bug. Also the affected clients use different versions of >>>> the File Daemon (24.0.7, 25.0.2), while the Director and Storage Daemon >>>> both use 25.0.2. >>>> >>>> What could be an explanation for this kind of behavior? I mentioned >>>> Always Incremental because I'm pretty sure that the problem is somehow >>>> related to it as the new huge incrementals started showing up after the >>>> most recent VirtualFull. But this is not the first VirtualFull, so I'm not >>>> sure why this behavior suddenly started.[image: >>>> bareos_huge_incrementals-1.png] >>>> >>>> [image: bareos_huge_incrementals-2.png] >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/75073f67-d0f7-4fb0-b4af-222b872f6128n%40googlegroups.com.
*list files jobid=93451 *list joblog jobid=93451 2026-03-17 09:07:02 director-01 JobId 93451: Version: 25.0.1 (04 December 2025) Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) 2026-03-17 09:07:02 director-01 JobId 93451: Start Backup JobId 93451, Job=Job_Customer-A_Daily_AlwaysIncremental_client-01.2026-03-17_09.07.02_58 2026-03-17 09:07:02 director-01 JobId 93451: Connected Storage daemon at storage-02:9103, encryption: TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 TLSv1.3 2026-03-17 09:07:02 director-01 JobId 93451: Encryption: TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 TLSv1.3 2026-03-17 09:07:02 director-01 JobId 93451: Using Client Initiated Connection (client-01). 2026-03-17 09:07:02 director-01 JobId 93451: Handshake: Immediate TLS 2026-03-17 09:07:02 director-01 JobId 93451: Encryption: TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 TLSv1.3 2026-03-17 09:07:03 director-01 JobId 93451: Sending Accurate information (estimated 8520321 files). 2026-03-17 09:07:03 director-01 JobId 93451: Warning: Encoding error for database "bareos". Wanted SQL_ASCII, got UTF8 2026-03-17 09:09:06 director-01 JobId 93451: Sent Accurate information for 542692 files (skipping 0 deleted files) in 00:02:03. 2026-03-17 09:09:09 storage-02 JobId 93451: Using just in time reservation for job 93451 2026-03-17 09:09:09 director-01 JobId 93451: Using Device "JustInTime Device" to write. 2026-03-17 09:09:09 client-01 JobId 93451: Connected Storage daemon at storage-02:9103, encryption: TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 TLSv1.3 2026-03-17 09:09:09 client-01 JobId 93451: Encryption: TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 TLSv1.3 2026-03-17 09:09:09 storage-02 JobId 93451: Version: 25.0.1 (04 December 2025) Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) 2026-03-17 09:09:09 client-01 JobId 93451: Extended attribute support is enabled 2026-03-17 09:09:09 client-01 JobId 93451: ACL support is enabled 2026-03-17 09:09:09 storage-02 JobId 93451: JustInTime Reservation: Finding drive to reserve. 2026-03-17 09:09:09 client-01 JobId 93451: Version: 24.0.7 (30 October 2025) Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) 2026-03-17 09:09:11 director-01 JobId 93451: Created new Volume "Customer-A/AI_Inc_8263" in catalog. 2026-03-17 09:09:11 storage-02 JobId 93451: Using Device "Device_ZFS_storage-020013" (/mnt/bareos/backup) to write. 2026-03-17 09:09:11 storage-02 JobId 93451: Labeled new Volume "Customer-A/AI_Inc_8263" on device "Device_ZFS_storage-020013" (/mnt/bareos/backup). 2026-03-17 09:09:11 storage-02 JobId 93451: Moving to end of data on volume "Customer-A/AI_Inc_8263" 2026-03-17 09:09:11 storage-02 JobId 93451: Ready to append to end of Volume "Customer-A/AI_Inc_8263" size=283 2026-03-17 09:09:11 director-01 JobId 93451: Max Volume jobs=1 exceeded. Marking Volume "Customer-A/AI_Inc_8263" as Used. 2026-03-17 09:09:16 client-01 JobId 93451: Disallowed filesystem. Will not descend from / into /proc 2026-03-17 19:15:22 director-01 JobId 93451: Insert of attributes batch table with 800001 entries start 2026-03-17 19:15:22 director-01 JobId 93451: Insert of attributes batch table done 2026-03-18 01:33:03 client-01 JobId 93451: Disallowed filesystem. Will not descend from / into /run 2026-03-18 01:44:42 client-01 JobId 93451: Disallowed filesystem. Will not descend from / into /dev 2026-03-18 01:44:42 client-01 JobId 93451: Disallowed filesystem. Will not descend from / into /sys 2026-03-18 01:45:03 storage-02 JobId 93451: Releasing device "Device_ZFS_storage-020013" (/mnt/bareos/backup). 2026-03-18 01:45:03 storage-02 JobId 93451: Elapsed time=16:35:54, Transfer rate=28.23 M Bytes/second 2026-03-18 01:45:03 director-01 JobId 93451: Insert of attributes batch table with 726274 entries start 2026-03-18 01:45:03 director-01 JobId 93451: Insert of attributes batch table done 2026-03-18 01:45:03 director-01 JobId 93451: Bareos director-01 25.0.1 (04Dec25): OS Information: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) JobId: 93451 Job: Job_Customer-A_Daily_AlwaysIncremental_client-01.2026-03-17_09.07.02_58 Backup Level: Incremental, since=2026-03-14 02:00:05 Client: "client-01" 24.0.7 (30Oct25) Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm),debian FileSet: "FileSet_FullStandard" 2025-06-05 14:00:00 Pool: "Pool_Customer-A_AI_Incremental" (From command line) Catalog: "MyCatalog" (From Client resource) Storage: "Storage_ZFS_storage-02" (From Pool resource) Scheduled time: 17-Mar-2026 09:07:02 Start time: 17-Mar-2026 09:07:03 End time: 18-Mar-2026 01:45:03 Elapsed time: 16 hours 38 mins Priority: 10 Allow Mixed Priority: no FD Files Written: 1,526,275 SD Files Written: 1,526,275 FD Bytes Read: 2,094,041,063,656 (2.094 TB) FD Bytes Written: 1,686,127,092,754 (1.686 TB) SD Bytes Written: 1,687,223,377,936 (1.687 TB) Rate: 28158.4 KB/s Software Compression: 19.5 % (lz4) VSS: no Encryption: yes Accurate: yes Volume name(s): Customer-A/AI_Inc_8263 Volume Session Id: 4206 Volume Session Time: 1770284986 Last Volume Bytes: 1,687,482,867,699 (1.687 TB) Non-fatal FD errors: 0 SD Errors: 0 FD termination status: OK SD termination status: OK Bareos binary info: Bareos subscription release Job triggered by: User Termination: Backup OK
