Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I'm noticing a lengthy pause in an rsnapshot setup when the >>> directories being shuffled are over 3gb or so. Rsnapshot makes a copy >>> of the last backup to a new name then runs rsync against the original. >>> Making that copy can take awhile. And more so as it gets bigger. >> >> Yikes! Double your disk space, just like that. > > Putting that in perspective, I'm backing up 1TB filesystems and have > 20 of them. It gets "real expensive, real fast".
This is so far beyond anything I deal with its not really comprehensible to me. > For filesystems of that size, Taking the approach of restoring a > snapshot form tape and then running rsnapshot would take at _least_ a > day. Double yikes... But back to the point of my post. I believe there are many people here and elsewhere using bacula for disk based bkup. As you know that kind of usage is designed into bacula, although it is apparent it is first a tape based backup system. So given that my usage will be only disk based but will be run across a home network, will I see an improvement in speed backing up 4-6GB at a time? I have messed around and messed up enough with bacula to know that it is far more complicated to run than rsnapshot but am assuming that will eventually settle down to a routine I can manage. I am rather thick skulled compared to most but even at that... I'm confident I'd catch on enough to get a working routine going eventually. So If I did, would I see a significant change in time and cpu consumed for the same scale of operation? ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
