On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Bojan Zdrnja (SANS ISC) <bojan....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Bacula server on a Linux box and I'm testing various > clients. > > I have a Windows Server 2012 machine which has deduplication enabled > (https://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2012/05/21/introduction-to-data-deduplication-in-windows-server-2012.aspx?Redirected=true). > This is a new feature in Windows Server 2012 which does chunk based > deduplication. > It saves quite a bit of disk space. > > I installed the latest free Bacula client for Windows (5.2.10, 64-bit). > > The problem is that the backups are incomplete. The client goes over all > files, but most of files are 0 bytes on the server. When trying to restore > them, I get a 0 byte file as well. > This can be seen from the backup's report as well - it says 1 GB total while > the total amount of files is about 50 GB. > > Does anyone know if the latest version of the client (6.0.6) works OK with > Windows Server 2012 that has deduplication turned on? I don't mind buying > it, of course, but would like to know that it works ok :) > Or if there is a setting that might help with the free version. When I > disable VSS I get the same results as when it is enabled. > > Thanks, > > Bojan >
I usually see no less than 4k as the "size on disk" for deduped files, I would suggest testing that you can open the 0k files from the server before they are backed up, this might have nothing to do with Bacula. Cheers Arne ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
