Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Large maildir backup

2008-11-27 09:38:24
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Large maildir backup
From: Silver Salonen <silver AT ultrasoft DOT ee>
To: Andrzej Zawadzki <zawadaa AT wp DOT pl>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:35:56 +0200
On Thursday 27 November 2008 16:29:50 you wrote:
> Silver Salonen wrote:
> > And when you have many incrementals in a row while restoring, you end up 
> > seeing many duplicate messages, that have been deleted or moved during 
these 
> > incrementals.
> >   
> 
> For such case use snapshots - freeze your FS, mount snapshot, make
> backup, unmount.
> LVM is great for that :-)

Well, no, I meant that these files reappear, because Bacula doesn't keep track 
on deleted files, ie. if a file in full backup gets deleted before the next 
backup, a restore basing on both of these backups will make the deleted file 
to reappear.

--
Silver

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