> 
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>       Possibly you have sparse files in /var/log?  Bacula can handle
those
> better if
>       you use the sparse=yes option in the FileSet (see the doc for
more).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I tried the sparse=yes, but that didn't help. I worked though a file
list and
> found the culprit to be lastlog. Although it is only 27 lines (using
the
> lastlog program), it is 216GB. It is supposed to be a sparse file, but
bacula
> is still estimating it at 216GB. Since I can't sparse a particular
file, I
> just may exclude it as it's not critical for restore.
> 

Windows backup appears to include a 'stream' containing information
about what blocks are sparse. Does anyone know if any of the Linux
filesystems are this smart? As I understand it, sparse determination is
done by reading the whole file and checking which blocks are all
empty...

James


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