Hi, following up on the previous discussion, below is a feature request form.
http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-de...@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04962.html Any comments welcome, Gavin ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item n: Implement a Migration job type that will create a reverse incremental (or decremental) backup from two existing full backups. Date: 05 October 2009 Origin: Griffith College Dublin. Some sponsorship available. Contact: Gavin McCullagh <gavin.mccull...@gcd.ie> Status: What: The ability to take two full backup jobs and derive a reverse incremental backup from them. The older full backup data may then be discarded. Why: Long-term backups based on keeping full backups can be expensive in media. In many cases (eg a NAS), as the client accumulates files over months and years, the same file will be duplicated unchanged, across many media and datasets. Eg, Less than 10% (and shrinking) of our monthly full mail server backup is new files, the other 90% is also in the previous full backup. Regularly converting the oldest full backup into a reverse incremental backup allows the admin to keep access to old backup jobs, but remove all of the duplicated files, freeing up media. Notes: This feature was previously discussed on the bacula-devel list here: http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-de...@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04962.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
