On Oct 1, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Eli Shemer wrote:

> Hey there,
>
> After doing several incremental backups of our remote servers, I’ve  
> noticed the backup sizes and transfer time are just too long.
> Making bacula almost completely improper for backing up remote  
> servers with big single files.
>
> I wanted to know whether someone actually got to implement an  
> incremental backup to act like rsync does upon file changes ?

No.

>
> I’m looking to write a patch to the save_file callback in the bacula- 
> fd’s backup procedure to utilize the gnu’s diff and patches and to  
> send those over the line to the bacula-sd. Of course a corresponding  
> implementation in the storage device will also be required.
>
> Comments anyone ?


Have you considered rsyncing such files to local HDD then backing up?

-- 
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/





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