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Hi guys, this is a very weird one. I been trying to tackle this for the past two weeks or so to no avail...

My director runs on Redhat Rhel 5.5 running bacula 5.0.2. My clients are Redhat Rhel 5.5 running bacula 5.0.2.

Each of the bacula clients are less than 15 GB of data. Backups of each client were fine. But two weeks ago the backups for each of these clients ballooned to 550GB each!!

When I do a df -h... the servers only show 15GB of space used. The one difference I noticed in the past two weeks is...I added these servers to our new IPA domain. Which in essence is an ldap server using kerberos authentication for identity management. This server runs on Rhel 6.2.

I have many other clients which are not part of the IPA domain that are backing up just fine. So I'm sure it has something to do with this. I have even tried to remove my bacula clients out of the IPA domain, than ran a backup. But it still reports at 550GB of data being backed up.

I appreciate the help...

Hi guys, this is a very weird one. I been trying to tackle this for the
past two weeks or so to no avail...

My director runs on Redhat Rhel 5.5 running bacula 5.0.2. My clients are
Redhat Rhel 5.5 running bacula 5.0.2.

Each of the bacula clients are less than 15 GB of data. Backups of each
client were fine. But two weeks ago the backups for each of these
clients ballooned to 550GB each!!

When I do a df -h... the servers only show 15GB of space used. The one
difference I noticed in the past two weeks is...I added these servers to
our new IPA domain. Which in essence is an ldap server using kerberos
authentication for identity management. This server runs on Rhel 6.2.

I have many other clients which are not part of the IPA domain that are
backing up just fine. So I'm sure it has something to do with this. I
have even tried to remove my bacula clients out of the IPA domain, than
ran a backup. But it still reports at 550GB of data being backed up.

I appreciate the help...



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On 4/5/12 8:21 AM, Abdullah Sofizada wrote:
Hi guys, this is a very weird one. I been trying to tackle this for the
past two weeks or so to no avail...

My director runs on Redhat Rhel 5.5 running bacula 5.0.2. My clients are
Redhat Rhel 5.5 running bacula 5.0.2.

Each of the bacula clients are less than 15 GB of data. Backups of each
client were fine. But two weeks ago the backups for each of these
clients ballooned to 550GB each!!

When I do a df -h... the servers only show 15GB of space used. The one
difference I noticed in the past two weeks is...I added these servers to
our new IPA domain. Which in essence is an ldap server using kerberos
authentication for identity management. This server runs on Rhel 6.2.

I have many other clients which are not part of the IPA domain that are
backing up just fine. So I'm sure it has something to do with this. I
have even tried to remove my bacula clients out of the IPA domain, than
ran a backup. But it still reports at 550GB of data being backed up.

I appreciate the help...



Complete guess: Does something that you added use one or more 'large'
sparse files? If so, either exclude those files from the backup, if
they are say, log-type files, or turn on sparse file detection in the
fileset (add sparse=yes to the fileset Options resource, as I recall).
The only other thing I could think of is if you are using 'onefs=yes'
and something introduced links such that most of your data is now being
backed up multiple times.

-se

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Abdullah:

Make sure you have this in your fileset definition

Sparse = yes

Also you can do this in bconsole:

estimate job=client_job_whatever listing

it will print the list of files to be backed up.
Look for big files in the list.


Pablo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Abdullah Sofizada" <asofizada < at > emedia.cv.net>
To: bacula-users < at > lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 11:21:37 AM
Subject: [Bacula-users] Backups increased to 500GB after adding to IPA domain

Hi guys, this is a very weird one. I been trying to tackle this for the
past two weeks or so to no avail...

My director runs on Redhat Rhel 5.5 running bacula 5.0.2. My clients are
Redhat Rhel 5.5 running bacula 5.0.2.

Each of the bacula clients are less than 15 GB of data. Backups of each
client were fine. But two weeks ago the backups for each of these
clients ballooned to 550GB each!!

When I do a df -h... the servers only show 15GB of space used. The one
difference I noticed in the past two weeks is...I added these servers to
our new IPA domain. Which in essence is an ldap server using kerberos
authentication for identity management. This server runs on Rhel 6.2.

I have many other clients which are not part of the IPA domain that are
backing up just fine. So I'm sure it has something to do with this. I
have even tried to remove my bacula clients out of the IPA domain, than
ran a backup. But it still reports at 550GB of data being backed up.

I appreciate the help...



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-Abdullah


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Thanks for the help guys. You are right it was this file right here:

/var/log/lastlog... I will exclude it from our backups.

Your the best thanks again!


On 4/5/2012 1:03 PM, Pablo Marques wrote:
Abdullah:

Make sure you have this in your fileset definition

Sparse = yes

Also you can do this in bconsole:

estimate job=client_job_whatever listing

it will print the list of files to be backed up.
Look for big files in the list.


Pablo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Abdullah Sofizada"<asofizada < at > emedia.cv.net>
To: bacula-users < at > lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 11:21:37 AM
Subject: [Bacula-users] Backups increased to 500GB after adding to IPA domain

Hi guys, this is a very weird one. I been trying to tackle this for the
past two weeks or so to no avail...

My director runs on Redhat Rhel 5.5 running bacula 5.0.2. My clients are
Redhat Rhel 5.5 running bacula 5.0.2.

Each of the bacula clients are less than 15 GB of data. Backups of each
client were fine. But two weeks ago the backups for each of these
clients ballooned to 550GB each!!

When I do a df -h... the servers only show 15GB of space used. The one
difference I noticed in the past two weeks is...I added these servers to
our new IPA domain. Which in essence is an ldap server using kerberos
authentication for identity management. This server runs on Rhel 6.2.

I have many other clients which are not part of the IPA domain that are
backing up just fine. So I'm sure it has something to do with this. I
have even tried to remove my bacula clients out of the IPA domain, than
ran a backup. But it still reports at 550GB of data being backed up.

I appreciate the help...





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-Abdullah


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