Re: [Bacula-users] Signatures and Verify options within FIleset Options

2025-01-09 Thread Rob Gerber
Thank you for bringing this up, John, and thank you for reviewing the code, Martin. I have submitted a documentation bug report in the bacula gitlab. Regards, Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM Martin Simmons wrote: > According to the code, it also allow

Re: [Bacula-users] retention strategy

2025-01-09 Thread Rob Gerber
I had another idea. What if you try bacula progressive virtual full backups? I do not know if you have heard of this method. You take a full backup, then do incremental backups for a period of time, like one month. Then you consolidate the previous full backup with the incremental backups. This gi

Re: [Bacula-users] retention strategy

2025-01-09 Thread Rob Gerber
I think there will no problem having one set of pools per FD, but maybe it increases complexity for you. Otherwise, no space savings. I have a couple ideas. 1. Bacula has the 'aligned' plugin. If you use the aligned plugin, it attempts to better align blocks found on disk in the volumes. It does

Re: [Bacula-users] retention strategy

2025-01-09 Thread Christophe PEREZ via Bacula-users
Hi Rob, I understood well since our first exchange that the MaximumVolumes at 1 was a heresy. I also understood well that to best manage several volumes, it remained important to separate Full, Diff and Inc in different pools. So, we are returning substantially to what I already have. On the other

Re: [Bacula-users] Signatures and Verify options within FIleset Options

2025-01-09 Thread Martin Simmons
According to the code, it also allows 6, 7 and 8: case '6': /* compare XXHASH64 */ do_Digest = CRYPTO_DIGEST_XXHASH64; break; case '7': /* compare XXH3_64 */ do_Digest = CRYPTO_DIGEST_XXH3_64;