On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Gavin Conway wrote:

> I've setup a bacula instance for one of our customers for 20+ clients
> but we have a problem. We have a Fedora system that is using 41gb in the
>  / directory. When we run an estimate against the system it comes back
> with 86gb's. When we try to run the backup it tries to actually backup
> this much data.

Try setting the "sparse" flag, or excluding /var/log/lastlog

(sparse is better as that way any coredumps will use minimum space on tape)

AB

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