Incremental Backup creates Full instead of information that has changed

Bidi

• February 21, 2018 01:37

Hello guys, I got a question / problem / confusion :) I changed from Compressed backups to Incremental, but i dont understand why dose it makes full backup instead of making for files was changed. What i whant to do is, 1 Full backup (weekly) and daily just for files was changed and the mysql. I`m doing sompting wrong?

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  cPanelMichael

  • February 21, 2018 13:07

  Hello, Could you let us know the contents of the /var/cpanel/backups/config file on this system? Keep in mind that incremental backups make use of hard links, so it might seem like disk space is utilized when it's actually not:

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  Bidi

  • February 21, 2018 14:26

  Hello, --- BACKUPACCTS: 'yes' BACKUPBWDATA: 'no' BACKUPDAYS: 0,2,3,4,5,6 BACKUPDIR: /home2/backup BACKUPENABLE: 'yes' BACKUPFILES: 'yes' BACKUPLOGS: 'yes' BACKUPMOUNT: 'no' BACKUPSUSPENDEDACCTS: 'yes' BACKUPTYPE: incremental BACKUP_DAILY_ENABLE: 'yes' BACKUP_DAILY_RETENTION: 3 BACKUP_MONTHLY_DATES: 1 BACKUP_MONTHLY_ENABLE: 'no' BACKUP_MONTHLY_RETENTION: 1 BACKUP_WEEKLY_DAY: 1 BACKUP_WEEKLY_ENABLE: 'yes' BACKUP_WEEKLY_RETENTION: 1 CHECK_MIN_FREE_SPACE: 1 ERRORTHRESHHOLD: 3 FORCE_PRUNE_DAILY: 1 FORCE_PRUNE_MONTHLY: 0 FORCE_PRUNE_WEEKLY: 1 GZIPRSYNCOPTS: --rsyncable KEEPLOCAL: 1 LINKDEST: 0 LOCALZONESONLY: 'no' MAXIMUM_RESTORE_TIMEOUT: 21600 MAXIMUM_TIMEOUT: 7200 MIN_FREE_SPACE: 10 MIN_FREE_SPACE_UNIT: percent MYSQLBACKUP: accounts POSTBACKUP: 'no' PREBACKUP: -1 PSQLBACKUP: 'no'

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  cPanelMichael

  • February 21, 2018 14:41

  Hello, Can you elaborate on what you are seeing that leads you to believe full backups are generated? Were you able to review the link referenced in my last post regarding hard links? Thank you.

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  Bidi

  • February 22, 2018 07:26

  Hello, Whell, i see on the backups on the same account diffrent dates made backup of all the files not the changed only.

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  cPanelMichael

  • February 22, 2018 15:36

  Whell, i see on the backups on the same account diffrent dates made backup of all the files not the changed only.

  
  Hello, Can you provide more details about what you see and how you are checking the existence of those files? Please post the output you see in the command line (ensuring to remove any identifying information about the accounts/server). Thank you.

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  Bidi

  • February 26, 2018 08:16

  I had erased username but is the same account.

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  cPanelMichael

  • February 26, 2018 18:56

  Hello, It's likely you are just seeing the hard link to the file. This is explained on the following thread: You'd need to access the server via SSH as root to confirm this by verifying the inode number is the same. EX: ls -li /path/to/daily-backup/filename ls -li /path/to/second-daily-backup/filename
  Thank you.

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