Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up a huge file

2008-10-30 17:46:04
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up a huge file
From: "J. Pablo\" Fernández" <pupeno AT pupeno DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:42:16 +0000
No hints or ideas about this?

Thanks.

On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 12:55 +0100, J. Pablo Fernández wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I need to backup a huge file, it currently is 700MB but it's conceivable
> that it'll grow beyond the 1GB. Normally I just copy this file to
> another location (for the curious, it's the database of a Zope instance,
> a ZODB file).
> This file changes little from day to day, but I understand Bacula can't
> do inside-the-file subdivision for incremental backups, am I right?
> Anyway, it doesn't matter. What I want to do is a full backup daily and
> keep two of them and a full backup weekly and also keep two of them. So
> at any given time I can get yesterday, the day before yesterday, a week
> ago and two weeks ago. Would you think that's a good idea?
> I suppose I should make two schedules, daily and weekly. But which
> numbers should I have on the pools to achieve this? Two volumes of
> 1.5GB? Any hints of guidance is welcome, I'm not a sysadmin and my
> experience with Bacula is very limited.
> 
> Thank you.
-- 
J. Pablo Fernández <pupeno AT pupeno DOT com> http://pupeno.com

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