On 1/9/2011 5:28 PM, Kianusch Sayah Karadji wrote: > Hi, > > I need to backup (actually to archive) lots of data. 24 filesystems - > each filesystem containing 2Mio+ files / 700GB. > > I need to save the data only once - since they do not change after they > are written. > > To have better control over what to backup and not to have a single > backup run for several days, I thought I'd use File="\|/myScript.sh" in > my fileset definition - and myScript.sh will return the next directory > to backup - the first time it should return /Directory001, the next time > /Directory002, ... (This script works already)
Good. > The question is - will this idea work with bacula? - Will this setup > always perform Full Backups - (since the Fileset changes on each run) - > or will Incremental also work? > > ... or ... are there other/better solutions for this kind of backup? I think you should just try it, with a very simple set of files. The answer will become obvious immediately. Offhand, and based on my doing similar, it is not the list of files which determines a new FileSet, is the specification thereof. In short, you'll get a full the first time. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
