On Wednesday 29 November 2006 00:26, Michael Koppelman wrote: > Sorry if this is redundant but I just wanted to add my voice to the > mix that it is too bad that bacula backs up files that have not > changed just because their mtime changed. In the end, it is probably > less expensive to checksum than move and handle redundant data. It > would at least be nice if one could choose the scheme in the > configuration so people who need to conserve computation time and > people who need to converse bandwidth could choose accordingly. > > I understand this may be in the works. That would be good news!
This project has been planned since the very beginning of Bacula. However, the users in their voting have not been very interested in it. Two years ago, this project ended up very close to the last. Last year it fared better ending up as item 5, which considering the magnitude of the projects that rated better than it is still pretty low. I would be happy to see this feature in Bacula if for no other reason than it would benefit me much more than most of the projects rated higher. However, the major problem is finding/motivating a programmer to work on this ... > > Bacula is very nice! Thank you! > > Michael > > > > >> The only way to deal with this is checksumming the file vs > >> stored file checksums and that is computationally > expensive. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
