On Thursday 09 June 2005 19:38, Arno Lehmann wrote: > 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
I had not, which seems foolish now. > 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 would have shown my error. > > This can't be right, can it? > > Basically, no. So, I assume that what you describe can't be the whole > truth :-) I hadn't defined the FileSet in the Job resource, so it used the default. > Arno Thanks :-) -- Dominic GoodforBusiness.co.uk I.T. Services for SMEs in the UK. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
