On Friday 10 February 2006 04:42, Alex Finch wrote: > I have been using bacula for a couple of weeks now, gnerally very happy. > > I have a user who is only occasionally in the department, and when he is > I would like to backup his laptop. The full backup happened for the first > time this week, and he sent me this comment: > > > "When (bacula fd is) running it seems to use all the memory, making doing > almost anything impossible." > > He is away again now so I can not verify this statement but I would > welcome comments from experienced bacula users in response.
I have found that running a full backup while a user (or a full restore for that matter) can really slow down a system if the user is trying to use it. Since the the laptop user isn't in often, it may be a large backup. j----- k----- -- Joshua Kugler PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ CDE System Administrator ID 0xDB26D7CE http://distance.uaf.edu/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
