Hi Arne,
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 9:06 PM, shouldbe q931 <shouldbeq...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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.
>
It is definitely deduplication -- see my other post. After I turned off
deduplication and performed a deduplication job backups started working
flawlessly.
Cheers,
Bojan
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