Hi Adrian, the "estimate" command gives more or less what I actually get:
*estimate job=BackupMailserver Using Catalog "MyCatalog" Connecting to Client mail.lab.retis.it-fd at 10.10.200.10:9102 2000 OK estimate files=417,626 bytes=145,337,578,064 It seems that despite the "sparse = yes" option the big file is being counted in as with its "apparent" size. Just to clarify, this is what I get for the apparent and real size of that file root@mail:/opt/zimbra/data/ldap/mdb/db# ls -l data.mdb && du -hs data.mdb -rw------- 1 zimbra zimbra 85899345920 Apr 5 17:18 data.mdb 1.9M data.mdb Subtracting those 80G from 145G I get 65G, which is a much closer approximation to the real size of the fileset to be backed up. Regards, 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 18:59, Adrian Reyer wrote: > Hi Alberto, > > On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 12:58:22PM +0200, Alberto Caporro wrote: >> 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 :-) > > Sorry, I read your original issue already as solved. > Perhaps the 'estimate' command is helpful: > estimate job=YOURJOB level=Full listing > should give you a file list of what is actually backed up. Perhaps > this > sheds some light. > Other posiblities depend on your mailserver software/storage format > and > filesystem. How are the sizes compared with > - df > - du -s dir > - tar cf - dir | wc > - tar cSf - dir | wc > > 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
