>> 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
Hello John: Bacula Community De-duplication would work, but in this case would 
have the same effect of having a single full backup with a fancy name and only 
doing differential backups further. Another solution would be virtual full 
backups. 

Regards, 
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