So you don't see anything wrong with my setup files or the job report? Raymond Luong IT Department Mocana Corporation
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arno Lehmann Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 2:01 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files Hi, On 4/2/2007 10:46 PM, Raymond Luong wrote: > I right click on the folders being backup on the windows 2003 server and > select properties. That gives me a combine size of the folders and it comes > out to around 3.5g. How it comes out to be 6.9g during backup I do not know. > I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this issue for me. Compressed files and sparse files probably. Compression is definitely something windows supports, and sparse files are a possibility. I don't know enough about windows to tell you how to check for these, except to right click on any file in question and compare size and size on disk (or whatever that is called in an English windows...). Arno > Thanks > > > Raymond Luong > IT Department > Mocana Corporation > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arno > Lehmann > Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 1:33 PM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files > > Hi, > > look: > > On 4/2/2007 8:34 PM, Raymond Luong wrote: >> Hi >> >> ... Here is the out put from a full backup of the >> windows 2003 server, which is name vega. The size of that job total 6.5g > ^^^^^ >> where as the data is only 3.5g. any thoughts will be greatly appreciated. > ^^^^^ > I assume this is what you see when you check how much disk space is used > on the client machine? > > Or, put differently, how do you get these 3.5g? > > ... the job report: >> FD Bytes Written: 6,967,712,827 (6.967 GB) >> SD Bytes Written: 6,983,738,564 (6.983 GB) >> Rate: 2465.6 KB/s >> Software Compression: 29.3 % > > You really have to check how much data you expect in the backups... > > Arno > -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
