Hello,
Dominic Marks wrote:
Hello,
[cc'd -users & -devel hope this is not offensive to anyone.]
Today I set up Bacula to backup a mail hierarchy our mail server. This
consists of a dozen users maildirs, comprising 4GB of disc space and,
according to Bacula, 308926 files.
The backup itself ran fine easily filling the 100Mbit connection between
servers. However, the size of the backup volume is rather large.
mail# du -sh /raid/mail
4.0G /raid/mail
mrt# ls -lh /vol/bacula/mail-fp-0001
-rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 23G Jun 9 17:30 /vol/bacula/mail-fp-0001
This is with compression=GZIP! As you can infer from the volume name this is
the first (0001) Full backup (fp == Full Pool).
Have you verified that the mail baclup job really only saves the
/raid/mail directory? How about sparse files? And are you absolutely
sure that this one full backup is the only job in the volume?
Apart from that, you can always
1. use "estimate listing" and compare the file list with the
directories, which needs some clever scripting with that number of files, or
2. restore the whole volume to see what is really saved in it.
This can't be right, can it?
Basically, no. So, I assume that what you describe can't be the whole
truth :-)
Arno
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