Hi, A bit of background: I backup about a dozen servers with Bacula, have been doing so since about April, and I recycle tapes every month (except end of month tapes, which are kept for a year). My database is now around 17GB and growing at a rate of about 2GB/month.
I'm pretty certain my mailserver is the main culprit for this. We store email in Unix maildir format, which means that every email which is received takes up a file record. I'm never likely to try restoring a single email by its filename in a maildir, so there's really no point in storing this level of detail. Far more useful would be to record just directories, so I can restore entire directories but nothing more granular. I could write a prebackup script which tars all the directories in /home into individual tar files, then just back those up. But this requires a lot of extra disk space on the mailserver, which I don't have. And with a 46GB mail store, I'd like to avoid adding extra processing. I can't find mention of such a feature in the docs, does it exist? James Cort ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
