Am 21.03.2013 um 16:27 schrieb Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net>: > Once upon a time, Christoph Litauer <lita...@uni-koblenz.de> said: >> This works but has two ceveats: ntbackup runs several minutes even on an >> unused system and the resulting backup is severeal gb every day. > > It sounds like you are not excluding things you should exclude. An > incremental backup of an unused system should not be several GB/day.
Sorry, this is a misunderstanding. I checked it out once more: The resulting backup-file of ntbackup is about 500MB each day even if the system is rarely used. > > Something like this should help (but remember that changing the > include/exclude will cause the next backup to be promoted to a full > backup): > > Options { > # Windows is case-preserving, NOT case-sensitive > Ignore Case = yes > Exclude = yes > > # general Windows stuff > wilddir = "c:/Windows/$NtServicePackUninstall$" > wilddir = "c:/Windows/$NtUninstall*" > wilddir = "c:/Windows/Installer/$PatchCache$" > wilddir = "c:/Windows/ServicePackFiles" > wilddir = "c:/Windows/SoftwareDistribution/Download" > wilddir = "c:/Windows/Temp" > > # per drive > wilddir = "[a-z]:/$Recycle.Bin" > wilddir = "[a-z]:/RECYCLER" > wilddir = "[a-z]:/System Volume Information" > wilddir = "[a-z]:/pagefile.sys" > } > I exclude lots of windows stuff but never excluded "System Volume Information". Is it really save even if I don't use ntbackup in the future? -- Freundliche Grüße Christoph ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users