Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] How robust is Bacula?

2008-07-23 12:26:05
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How robust is Bacula?
From: Ryan Novosielski <novosirj AT umdnj DOT edu>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:25:34 -0400
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T. Horsnell wrote:
> I'm intending to use Bacula to backup a large active system (16TBytes) 
> and would like to know users' experiences of how Bacula reacts when 
> things that it is backing up change/move/disappear. At the moment I'm 
> not so concerned how it handles device errors (as long as it notices 
> them and notifies me accordingly). I just dont want it to stop if, e.g, 
> one of the files it is backing up, changes size or disappears midstream.

Errors appear, but they do not affect the backup. If you are asking
whether deletions are tracked in the case of incremental or differential
backups, though, that is another story. I'm not sure what the status of
that project is.

> I cant see anything appropriate in the user guide (at least, not in the 
> contents or index).
> 
> Cheers,
> Terry


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