Re: [Bacula-users] Windows client backup: VSS and/or ntbackup?
2013-03-21 12:14:41
How about dedupe/base jobs as well?
On Mar 21, 2013, at 12:09 PM, "Chris Adams" <cmadams AT hiwaay DOT net> wrote:
> Once upon a time, Christoph Litauer <litauer AT uni-koblenz DOT de> said:
>> This works but has two ceveats: ntbackup runs several minutes even on an
>> unused system and the resulting backup is severeal gb every day.
>
> It sounds like you are not excluding things you should exclude. An
> incremental backup of an unused system should not be several GB/day.
>
> Something like this should help (but remember that changing the
> include/exclude will cause the next backup to be promoted to a full
> backup):
>
> Options {
> # Windows is case-preserving, NOT case-sensitive
> Ignore Case = yes
> Exclude = yes
>
> # general Windows stuff
> wilddir = "c:/Windows/$NtServicePackUninstall$"
> wilddir = "c:/Windows/$NtUninstall*"
> wilddir = "c:/Windows/Installer/$PatchCache$"
> wilddir = "c:/Windows/ServicePackFiles"
> wilddir = "c:/Windows/SoftwareDistribution/Download"
> wilddir = "c:/Windows/Temp"
>
> # per drive
> wilddir = "[a-z]:/$Recycle.Bin"
> wilddir = "[a-z]:/RECYCLER"
> wilddir = "[a-z]:/System Volume Information"
> wilddir = "[a-z]:/pagefile.sys"
> }
>
> The biggest things that will hit incremental backups of unused systems
> are the last two in the list. The "System Volume Information" directory
> is where VSS information is stored, so it can be large during the
> backup. Also, any activity (such as running ntbackup) can cause changes
> in pagefile.sys, which will cause the whole file to be included in the
> backup (and it can also be big).
>
> Now, I have a question of my own related to this: ntbackup is gone in
> newer versions of Windows. What are people using to do the equivalent
> of "ntbackup backup systemstate" there?
> --
> Chris Adams <cmadams AT hiwaay DOT net>
> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
>
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