Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] don't store file information

2009-06-05 07:30:36
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] don't store file information
From: Ralf Gross <Ralf-Lists AT ralfgross DOT de>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 13:25:54 +0200
Ralf Gross schrieb:
> 
> is it possible to configure a backup job to _not_ store information
> about the backed up files/paths etc in the database?
> 
> I recently tried to backup my BackupPC pool with bacula. BackupPC
> makes excessive use of hardlinks, I ended up with 50 GB of data in my
> postgres database only for this single backup job!
> 
> I don't need the file information, the bacula backup will only be used
> if I have to restore the whole BackupPC pool for desaster recovery.
> 
> I couldn't find a option for this in the FileSet, Client or Job
> resources.
> 
> A very short file retention won't help, because my diskspace for the
> database is not even enough to store this information at all (the job
> ended with an database error during the batch inserts...).

got the right answer on the devel list:

Catalog Files = <yes--no>

in the pools resource

Ralf

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