What additional data would you need? Raymond Luong IT Department Mocana Corporation
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arno Lehmann Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 2:48 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files Hi, On 4/2/2007 11:38 PM, Raymond Luong wrote: > So you don't see anything wrong with my setup files or the job report? I can determine if something's wrong only if I have all relevant data :-) Arno > 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
