>>>>> On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 23:28:31 +0100, Kianusch Sayah Karadji said:
> 
> I need to backup (actually to archive) lots of data.  24 filesystems - each
> filesystem containing 2Mio+ files / 700GB.
> 
> I need to save the data only once - since they do not change after they are
> written.
> 
> To have better control over what to backup and not to have a single backup
> run for several days, I thought I'd use File="\|/myScript.sh" in my fileset
> definition - and myScript.sh will return the next directory to backup - the
> first time it should return /Directory001, the next time /Directory002, ...
> (This script works already)
> 
> The question is - will this idea work with bacula? - Will this setup always
> perform Full Backups - (since the Fileset changes on each run) - or will
> Incremental also work?

Fileset changes are calculated from the config file, not the list of files
returned by the "\|" script, so it will do Incremental too.  Don't use the
"accurate" option though, because it will get confused.


> ... or ... are there other/better solutions for this kind of backup?

You could use a separate fileset and job for each directory.

__Martin

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