Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-14 15:21:34
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large
From: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:18:47 GMT
>>>>> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:23:37 +0000, Bart Swedrowski said:
> 
> 2011/1/13 Mark <bacula-list AT nerdish DOT us>:
> > Have you done a 'list files jobid=<some job>' for one of your incrementals?
> >  Maybe you have a few really large files that are getting changed every day,
> > and therefore getting backed up each day.
> 
> Yeah, I tried that, too.  It's only listing files that got changed/are
> new and should be backed up.  Although, total is still very high.
> 
> +-------+--------+---------------------+------+-------+----------+----------------+-----------+
> | jobid | name   | starttime           | type | level | jobfiles |
> jobbytes       | jobstatus |
> +-------+--------+---------------------+------+-------+----------+----------------+-----------+
> | 1,105 | tic FS | 2011-01-10 02:05:08 | B    | I     |    4,585 |
> 39,502,153,253 | T         |
> +-------+--------+---------------------+------+-------+----------+----------------+-----------+
> 
> Again, even though it's showing the jobbytes = over 39GB on disk it's
> taking max 6GB.  I can see how much space individual volumes are
> taking.

It sounds like you have some large files which compress a lot.

I would take the output of 'list files jobid=<some job>' and write a script to
find the size of every file in the list to verify why it reaches 39GB.

__Martin

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