Hi -
I'd like to image a windows desktop by booting into knoppix and using bacula to backup the ntfs partitions. I thought this'd be a nice way to do disaster recovery.
The trouble is that the desktop has a big hard disk, most of which is empty.
Neither the sparse nor compression options seem to much reduce the data size written by the storage daemon. It's clear that the whole partition is being backed up, not just the data.
I guess that the sparse=yes option doesn't have any effect because the block size of 32k isn't granular enough to find the empty disk space on NTFS.
The compression=GZIP doesn't seem to help either, though as an experiment I gzipped the resulting volume and it did shrink by 1/3.
If anyone can think of a workaround I'd be interested to hear.
Thanks -
Leni.
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