I have been using Bacula on a Debian box (in a windows xp network) for a while now, and it's working great, except that the backup volume (stored on the hard disk) is getting to big.
I have since learned that all the purging options in bacula only remove files and jobs from the bacula database, and not from the backup volume. so I must set up bacula to use some system to rotate backup volumes. (not a problem) I have also learned that the differential backup makes a copy of all files changed since the last full backup, so the differential backups are getting larger and larger. I was wondering if i could do without the differential backups altogether ? I would like to make a full backup every 3 month (in a separate pool) and do incremental backups hourly during work hours. we don't change a lot of files, incremental backups are about 1 to 5 MB every hour. (restore is slow, but workable) the incremental pool will be recycled after 3x3=9 month, and i may keep some of the full backup pools a bit longer. (we do off-site backup using an external drive and a windows sync program. I only use bacula to restore accidentally deleted or overwritten files) The only disadvantage i can see is that new files that are added with an old date/time will not be backed up. (like files extracted from an old zip file received by mail) Is there a way to make the incremental backup backup all new files, even if they have a date/time older than the previous incremental backup ? Jaap Stolk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
