Re: [Bacula-users] Minimising network bandwidth

2007-11-07 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Ryan Novosielski wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > David Legg wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I know the current method of handling the backup of a database is to run >> a special job just before the main backup which dumps the database out >> to a file. This file is then b

Re: [Bacula-users] Minimising network bandwidth

2007-11-07 Thread David Legg
Thanks for the pointers Ryan, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > >> Are there any plans to give >> the client file daemons the ability to transfer just the differences >> instead of the whole file? >> > > This was a requested project, but I guess you can imagine what /I'm/ > going to say next. :) >

[Bacula-users] Minimising network bandwidth

2007-11-07 Thread David Legg
Hi, I know the current method of handling the backup of a database is to run a special job just before the main backup which dumps the database out to a file. This file is then backed up as normal. The trouble with this approach is that even if one small record has been modified the whole dat

Re: [Bacula-users] Minimising network bandwidth

2007-11-07 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Legg wrote: > Hi, > > I know the current method of handling the backup of a database is to run > a special job just before the main backup which dumps the database out > to a file. This file is then backed up as normal. > > The trouble with