Hello bacula community,

I am a newbie to bacula and backup but I have decided to use it for our
backup scheme:) we will backup two servers to a backup server.

I have got a few questions that I have not figured out the answer.

1.why does bacula use db as backend? why add additional this level of
complexity to the backup?

2. the folders I would like to backup are

monk                                                                            
                                                                 
/home 79G                                                                       
                                                                 
/etc                                                                            
                                                                 
/srv/bitten 2G                                                                  
                                                                 
/srv/www 23G                                                                    
                                                                 
/srv/pub 32G                                                                    
                                                                 
/srv/svnrepos 2G                                                                
                                                                 
/srv/trac 1.5G                                                                  
                                                                 
/var 2G                                                                         
                                                                 
total 160G
                                                                                
                                                                 
ccl                                                                             
                                                                 
/home 19G // everyone's public_html and .maildir directory                      
                                                                 
/home/httpd 43G                                                                 
                                                                 
/etc                                                                            
                                                                 
/usr1 83G //including mailman and postgresql database                           
                                                                 
/var 8G                                                                         
                                                                 
/Public 115G                                                                    
                                                                 
/usr/local/cvsroot 3G                   
total  200G

I have got two 1T drive for raid1. so I have 1T space.

 considering the size of my drive, what would be a reasonable back
scheme? How frequently should I do the full backup and how frequently
should I do the incremental backup?

3. How large would the db grow if for example I do a full backup of the
above contents? Does bacula compress the contents?

Thanks for any suggestions and I am open to reading documents.

-- 
Zhengquan


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