>> >> Thank you, this will be the case as i'm *never* doing Full backups >> >> (it takes ages to complete). >> >If you are using a Virtual Full Backups then you had to run at least >> >one Full Backup on your client. If your VF backups are not >> >compressed then your first Full backup wasn't compressed either. To >> >get VF compressed you have to perform a new Full compressed backup. >> >> I understand but i'm trying to avoid doing new Full backup. It's >> e-mail server with 5 000 000 of files and 600 GB storage. Full backup >> takes about 20 hours and server is under big load. :( > >Is there a way to make LVM/ZFS snapshot and back it up afterwards >(possibly throttling the IO of the Bacula FD process to not slow down >the server)?
It's ext3. >Alternatively, you *could* try to restore your full backup somewhere >else and then take the full (compressed) backup off that other client >somehow pretending that it really was your *real* client (certain >jiggling with Client settings will be needed in the Director's >configuration to change the IP/hostname of that client). Don't like this much but i will consider it. Thank you. azur ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
