On 21/07/10 03:27, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 07/20/10 10:15, Mister IT Guru wrote: > >> I've been reading up on some of the new features, and one of them is a >> base job. Do I need to do an actual full backup to create a base, or can >> I make one from existing backed up data? >> > You cannot, to my knowledge, create a base job from an existing Full > backup. The point of a Base job is that it should contain only > mostly-unchanging files, preferably unchanging files that are common to > a large group of machines. For example, if you have a hundred Windows > XP clients, and you start out with a Base job consisting of the complete > install image for that machine before any users or user files are > created on it, then all of those files need to be backed up only once > for all 100 clients - and if the base install for those machines > changes, say when Windows updates are applied or applications installed, > then only the changed files need to be re-backed up, and only once. > > > I was really hoping that that would not be the case :(
Now I'm wondering why a job can use itself as a base, if it suppose to be unchanging files? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
