Conny Brunnkvist wrote: > 14 dec 2007 kl. 13.38 skrev Michel Meyers: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Michael Short wrote: >>> When I perform backups on almost 16 Windows 2003 Servers, bacula must >>> backup an entire NTBackup archive (which is several GB) for change >>> which is only a few hundred MB. Is there some way to perform an >>> >> You mean you back all the files up with ntbackup and then back THAT up >> with Bacula? Why? Use ntbackup only for the core system state, and have >> the Bacula File Daemon get the other files directly, that way you can > > Yeah, of course you should use ntbackup only for saving the system state > somewhere, prior to the bacula job is run... > Note that taking use of ntbackup at all is /only/ necessary in case you > need "bare metal recovery". Not that I ever tried it yet using bacula on > windows, but the wiki says it is possible... > > On another note, another situation where block level diffs would be > extremely useful is for databases. For example, I often see the case > where a system running MS SQL Server has allocated ONE file for, say, a > 20 GB large database, and that whole file gets included in the > "incremental" each night even though in reality the modified data might > be just a single row...
What I do for large files such as database dumps: run pg_dump to get the text file. Then use rsync to update the local copy, then backup that. -- Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference: http://www.bsdcan.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
