Backup with dar is correctly finishing a full backup after 12 hours as desired. The night after, it starts an incremental file with the rather peculiar name inc20 (instead of inc1). This also is correctly finishing after 12 hours. I now have two “readable” backup sets, ie these sets can be opened and are not corrupted in any way. The third night backup with dar just overwrites backup inc20.
This overwriting of inc20 goes on and on, night after night. Is there a way to “reset” backup with dar? It feels as if it’s noted in some kind of datafile/database that the new incremental backup should start at inc20 (I’ve got no idea whether it takes the full backup as a starting point or some long gone inc19?).
It should be noted that a full backup of all files on the server can’t be finished within 24 hours.
What I did try to solve the problem:
- disable and enable the backup again after some time
- remove all previous full and incremental backups
- change the backup location to another backup destination
- changed backup settings to longer or shorter periods, to more or less incremental updates
- change the starting date of the full backup
Backup with dar keeps generating a “readable” full backup followed by a “readable” inc20. After that it justs keep repeating the inc20 incremental backup.
Any ideas or suggestions?
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