Re: [Bacula-users] including a file twice

2013-05-20 Thread Kern Sibbald
Unless the file is hardlinked to another one, so that it is in fact *exactly* the same file, Bacula will backup every file that is included as many times as you include them. On 05/20/2013 09:14 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: Hi all, quick question: if I include a file twice in the FileSet will bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] including a file twice

2013-05-20 Thread Dan Langille
On May 20, 2013, at 8:45 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On 05/20/2013 06:01 PM, compdoc wrote: > >> >> I think you want: >> >> http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/main/main/File_Deduplication_using_Ba.html > > Thanks, but no, that's not what I meant. IME if you tell your backup > program to save

Re: [Bacula-users] including a file twice

2013-05-20 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 05/20/2013 06:01 PM, compdoc wrote: > > I think you want: > > http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/main/main/File_Deduplication_using_Ba.html Thanks, but no, that's not what I meant. IME if you tell your backup program to save /foo/bar/baz, /foo/bar/bleh, /foo/bar/baz, ..., most of them will

Re: [Bacula-users] including a file twice

2013-05-20 Thread compdoc
anual/main/main/File_Deduplication_using_Ba.html From: melvin.r...@gmail.com [mailto:melvin.r...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 4:32 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net; Dimitri Maziuk Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] including a file twice I'd imagine that since files get backed u

Re: [Bacula-users] including a file twice

2013-05-20 Thread melvin . ross
I'd imagine that since files get backed up according to their absolute paths in the file system that you'd only get one copy. That's just a guess from doing restores and poking around at the database. If not, I'd imagine that the scenario could really make muck up a backup. How would it know whe

[Bacula-users] including a file twice

2013-05-20 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Hi all, quick question: if I include a file twice in the FileSet will bacula back it up twice or is it smart enough to only write one copy of it? TIA -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signatur