I wouldn't say that this is a bug. The shrink wrapped backup softare
that you will pay 10's of K for work in the same way. If it's that
much of an issue just do fulls for that file system.
-Jason
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 15:16 +0100, Vladimirs Vecgailis wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > Well, this is a known limitation - see
> > http://www.bacula.org/?page=projects "Item 1" ;)
> >
>
> :-[ ]
>
> But this bug renders the incremental backups (almost) useless...
>
> Imagine a Maildir-directory with many thousands of mails.
> Some hundrets are knowingly deleted.
> Then a crash comes and data is restored - WITH ALL THE OLD FILES/MAILS...
>
>
> Exactly this is my situation - i backup a Zimbra-Server (a mail &
> groupware-server).
> It saves the mails in a maildir-like directory-structure in separate files.
> Now i make backups of approx. 900 000 files, and the amount is bigger every
> day.
>
> Now i tried a restore it to a test-machine and got all the old data back,
> what was deleted weeks ago!
>
> Further, my database grows very fast!
>
>
> What shoul be done in that kind of situation???
>
> :-(
>
>
>
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
>
> Vladimirs Vecgailis
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