Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size

2015-10-27 Thread John Lockard
Not sure if there is such a thing as "a standard bacula configuration", but as I said, the simple math says that if you only do 1 monthly full backup and you keep the last year's worth of full backups, you'll need 2.4TB of storage. This completely ignores the retention of other backup levels. On

Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size

2015-10-27 Thread Thing
It is a standard bacula configuration at present. Most of the data will be static as its historic (up to 8 years old) copied off a mac to a nfs mount and kept for the occasional random access from other macs. On 28 October 2015 at 09:51, Thing wrote: > Hi, > > It is a standard bacula configurat

Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size

2015-10-27 Thread Thing
Hi, It is a standard bacula configuration, data will also not change much. So from your estimate with compression a 3TB drive would seem the minimum. On 28 October 2015 at 09:14, John Lockard wrote: > How often are you backing up? Fulls, Differentials, Incrementals? How > long do you want to

Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size

2015-10-27 Thread John Lockard
How often are you backing up? Fulls, Differentials, Incrementals? How long do you want to keep each? How compressible is your data? How much does the data change? How often does the data change? Too many variables to answer your questions as given. Only full backups, once a month, you'd need

Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files

2007-04-03 Thread Raymond Luong
Cc: Arthur Emerson III Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files On Tuesday 03 April 2007 01:13, Arthur Emerson III wrote: > > Darien Hager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Are you reading from "Size:" or "Size on disk:"? If t

Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files

2007-04-03 Thread Raymond Luong
ana Corporation -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern Sibbald Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 8:34 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Arthur Emerson III Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files On Tuesday 03 April 200

Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files

2007-04-03 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 01:13, Arthur Emerson III wrote: > > Darien Hager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Are you reading from "Size:" or "Size on disk:"? If there is a > > significant difference between the two, then that may indicate the > > presence of "sparse files", in which case you will

Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files

2007-04-02 Thread Arthur Emerson III
Darien Hager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you reading from "Size:" or "Size on disk:"? If there is a > significant difference between the two, then that may indicate the > presence of "sparse files", in which case you will want to set > sparse=yes in your Fileset's Options{} block. It may al

Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files

2007-04-02 Thread Michael Nelson
On Mon, April 2, 2007 3:06 pm, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > Under unix/linux, getting the necessary information together would be > rather simple, under windows I have no idea how I would do this. Lots of clicking and rebooting, like everything else in Windows. ;-) -- This message has been scanned

Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files

2007-04-02 Thread Arno Lehmann
02, 2007 2:48 PM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files > > Hi, > > On 4/2/2007 11:38 PM, Raymond Luong wrote: >> So you don't see anything wrong with my setup files or the job report? > > I ca

Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files

2007-04-02 Thread Darien Hager
> I right click on the folders being backup on the windows 2003 > server and > select properties. That gives me a combine size of the folders and > it comes > out to around 3.5g. How it comes out to be 6.9g during backup I do > not know. > I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this issue

Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files

2007-04-02 Thread Raymond Luong
gt; Mocana Corporation > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arno > Lehmann > Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 2:01 PM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than fil

Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files

2007-04-02 Thread Arno Lehmann
Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arno > Lehmann > Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 2:01 PM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files > > Hi, > > On 4/2/2

Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files

2007-04-02 Thread Raymond Luong
e.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files Hi, On 4/2/2007 10:46 PM, Raymond Luong wrote: > I right click on the folders being backup on the windows 2003 server and > select properties. That gives me a combine size of the folders and it comes > out to aroun

Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files

2007-04-02 Thread Arno Lehmann
D] On Behalf Of Arno > Lehmann > Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 1:33 PM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files > > Hi, > > look: > > On 4/2/2007 8:34 PM, Raymond Luong wrote: >> Hi >> &

Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files

2007-04-02 Thread Raymond Luong
hanks Raymond Luong IT Department Mocana Corporation -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arno Lehmann Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 1:33 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than file

Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files

2007-04-02 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, look: On 4/2/2007 8:34 PM, Raymond Luong wrote: > Hi > >... Here is the out put from a full backup of the > windows 2003 server, which is name vega. The size of that job total 6.5g ^ > where as the data is only 3.5g. any