On 02.12.2015 22:54, John O'Neill wrote:
Hi All,
I was wondering if you all might be able to give me thoughts on
something we are looking at implementing. We have a windows file
server which we currently backup using bacula.
This runs completely without issue and is generally rock solid. We are
however going to be hitting a bump in the road soon, one of the shares
on the file server is for our design team. The files are all very
large and the versioninig system they use is a little odd, it results
in us having lots of files of very similar nature
They have a lot of historical files from projects which are closed off
now but for business reasons cannot be archived off.
We are coming close to a time now where our monthly full back up will
exceed the window we have available to us.
To this end I am looking at the Bacula de-duplication option to create
a base job for the file server, I would then reference this base job
in the back up of the file server in the hope of achieving 1) some
space saving and 2) an decrease in time it takes to backup
Does any one have any opinions on this as to whether or not it will
work and is it a good idea or not ?
Cheers,
John
Hi.
It sounds to me that you should be updating the base image quite often
in order to avoid all this new data periodically.
Depending on how static the data actually is after it's created I would
suggest two possible solutions that utilize some smart scripts to
determine which files to backup and how:
* Script that finds all "older than something" files and adds them to
archive-type incremental backup which are stored for a period of
your retention time
* Script that finds all duplicates by checksums and backs up only one
of those files (I haven't try this myself, so wouldn't guess how
much resources would this solution require)
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