Hi Adrian, thanks for your advice, I was actually already thinking of switching to a full backup strategy; unfortunately that would not solve tho size issue, which at this point is becoming quite puzzling :-)
Cheers, Alberto --- Alberto Caporro Director of Security Services - Consulthink Srl Via dell'Archivio di Stato, 15 00144 Rome, Italy http://www.consulthink.it M. +39 335 1217 394 F. +39 06 4549 2454 GPG key fingerprint 46B5 2D38 2D48 3EFA 5C12 B86B 157D 80BA 2EAD DF41 On 5 Apr 2013, at 12:53, Adrian Reyer wrote: > Hi Alberto, > > On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 09:03:51AM +0200, Alberto Caporro wrote: >> I backed up our mail server, which is hosted in a virtual machine >> with two virtual disks sized at 20G and 200G respectively. I'm only >> backing up relevant files (/etc, /root and /opt) and measured on the >> server itself, the total size amounts to slightly more than 56G. > > Please rethink that. Unless you took further steps, if your box > crashes > you won't even know which packages have been installed, your /etc will > be mostly useless. And if you actually know which packages you had > installed, you would need to reconfigure them with debconf as the > information from /var is missing. > I strongly recommend to always backup the whole server. The saved few > 100MB system data is never worth the time you have to spend resolving > all these configuration issues. > > Regards, > Adrian > -- > LiHAS - Adrian Reyer - Hessenwiesenstraße 10 - D-70565 Stuttgart > Fon: +49 (7 11) 78 28 50 90 - Fax: +49 (7 11) 78 28 50 91 > Mail: li...@lihas.de - Web: http://lihas.de > Linux, Netzwerke, Consulting & Support - USt-ID: DE 227 816 626 > Stuttgart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
