[Bacula-users] backup for a new machine way too small
Hi, I just added a new machine to my backup set and tried to run a full backup. The machine is basically configured like any other, in terms of what Bacula has to say, but the compression ratio was _much_ too good to be true (~250MB instead of 3 GB, most of it being images). Bacula claimed that the backup ran OK. My backups go to disk, with one job = one file, roughly named hostname_level_timestam. I didn't manage to find out what files are actually in a given backup file, like outlined above. It would be sufficient for me to be able to use something like 'restore' from the ufsdump package, but I didn't find my way around 'bconsole' to achieve something similar. I also tried 'bat', but when I clicked on what I thought was the FileSet explorer (?), it simply hung after some 15-20 minutes (?), with three windows in solid grey (no buttons, diagrams, nothing). These are two Debian/Lenny machines with bacula 2.4.4. Kind regards, --Toni++ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] backup for a new machine way too small
Toni Mueller wrote: Hi, I just added a new machine to my backup set and tried to run a full backup. The machine is basically configured like any other, in terms of what Bacula has to say, but the compression ratio was _much_ too good to be true (~250MB instead of 3 GB, most of it being images). Bacula claimed that the backup ran OK. My backups go to disk, with one job = one file, roughly named hostname_level_timestam. I didn't manage to find out what files are actually in a given backup file, like outlined above. It would be sufficient for me to be able to use something like 'restore' from the ufsdump package, but I didn't find my way around 'bconsole' to achieve something similar. I also tried 'bat', but when I clicked on what I thought was the FileSet explorer (?), it simply hung after some 15-20 minutes (?), with three windows in solid grey (no buttons, diagrams, nothing). These are two Debian/Lenny machines with bacula 2.4.4. Kind regards, --Toni++ Hi Toni, I think your right about the compression. Find your way as like this bconsole restore choose choice 5 select your client and it will build the tree backuped. so you can navigate inside to see what's have been saved without really restore data. cd ls etc .. are your friends -- Bruno Friedmann -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] backup for a new machine way too small
Forget to say that if your image are uncompressed tif for example they can be compressed 10/12 times. So 3GB could become something aroud 300MB ... Toni Mueller wrote: Hi, I just added a new machine to my backup set and tried to run a full backup. The machine is basically configured like any other, in terms of what Bacula has to say, but the compression ratio was _much_ too good to be true (~250MB instead of 3 GB, most of it being images). Bacula claimed that the backup ran OK. My backups go to disk, with one job = one file, roughly named hostname_level_timestam. I didn't manage to find out what files are actually in a given backup file, like outlined above. It would be sufficient for me to be able to use something like 'restore' from the ufsdump package, but I didn't find my way around 'bconsole' to achieve something similar. I also tried 'bat', but when I clicked on what I thought was the FileSet explorer (?), it simply hung after some 15-20 minutes (?), with three windows in solid grey (no buttons, diagrams, nothing). These are two Debian/Lenny machines with bacula 2.4.4. -- Bruno Friedmann -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
