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This is what you said John Kodis
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 06:50:33PM -0700, Scott Ruckh wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> In the olden days, prior to the wide-spread use of 64 bit computers,
> Unix user IDs were 32 bit integers, and the lastlog file had an entry
> for each one. There were few enough that the bit of wasted space
> didn't matter. At some point, Red Hat changed user IDs to 64 bit
> integers on 64 bit platforms, and since the lastlog file still had an
> entry for each one, there were now so many user IDs that the wasted
> space does matter, bloating the lastlog file to 1.2TB as you've noted.
> They've corrected this problem in recent releases of their
> distribution.
>
> $ uname -p
> x86_64
> $ ls -l /var/log/lastlog
> -r-------- 1 root root 11390920 Apr 25 07:49 /var/log/lastlog
I am not sure my FileSet is correct (see below), but it "sort-of" worked.
The backup still took 3 hours longer then if I completely excluded
/var/log/lastlog.
FileSet {
Name = "Firewall Full"
Include {
Options {
signature = MD5
sparse = yes
compression = GZIP
}
File = /var/log/lastlog
}
Include {
Options {
compression = GZIP
signature = MD5
}
File = /
File = /boot
File = /home
}
Include {
Options {
compression = GZIP
signature = MD5
wildfile = "/var/log/lastlog"
Exclude = yes
}
File = /var
}
Exclude {
File = /proc
File = /tmp
File = /sys
File = dev
File = /.journal
File = /.fsck
File = /mnt
File = /var/spool/squid
File = /BACKUPS
}
}
The good news is the backup only took about 13GB of space as opposed to
the 205GB of space it had gobbled up before I had to cancel the job. The
bad news is that this backup is 3 hours longer then running the backup and
just excluding /var/log/lastlog.
Does the above FileSet look correct for what I am trying to accomplish?
Thanks for the help.
Scott
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