On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 06:46, Alan Brown wrote:
> 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)
If it is a 64-bit system, you may want to exclude
/var/log/lastlog anyway. Even with the sparse option it will
waste a lot of time copying it.
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