This is what you said Jason Martin > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:31:43PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: >> > The backup is to disk for this single system and the backup is well >> over >> > 143GB in space. The actual data being backed up is less then 30GB. >> Why >> > is this backup so big? >> >> Run the estimate command. Something is taking up the space. Are you >> backing up to disk and also backing up the Bacula Volumes? i.e >> backing up your backups. > Also, are you spooling and including the spool directory in the > backup? > > -Jason Martin
You can see from my ealier post that my total used space (of the volumes listed in my file list) was about 25.3GB (per the output from df -h). My backup volume (to disk) was already 10 times the size of the total used disk space before I cancelled the job. I am excluding /BACKUPS in my file list so you can see I am not backing up my backups. Also, I am going straight to disk so I am not spooling first. I think I have found the culprit, /var/log/lastlog . It is a sparse file and appears to be 1.2TB, which is way larger then the total space of the filesystem, In reality, this file only uses 64K of actual used disk space, but I am guessing bacula sees it as a 1.2TB file. I am guessing I can exclude this file, but is there a more graceful way of handling this file. Now that I believe I have found the trouble maker I will go back through the bacula archives to see if there is a solution. If not, has anyone else had to deal with this file? Thanks fo your help. Scott ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
