On Monday 05 October 2009 13:21:44 Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> following up on the previous discussion, below is a feature request form.
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-devel AT lists.sourceforge DOT
> net/msg04962.htm
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> Any comments welcome,
>
> Gavin
>
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>-- Item n: Implement a Migration job type that will create a reverse
> incremental (or decremental) backup from two existing full backups. Date:
> 05 October 2009
> Origin: Griffith College Dublin. Some sponsorship available.
> Contact: Gavin McCullagh <gavin.mccullagh AT gcd DOT ie>
> Status:
>
> What: The ability to take two full backup jobs and derive a reverse
> incremental backup from them. The older full backup data may then
> be discarded.
>
> Why: Long-term backups based on keeping full backups can be expensive
> in media. In many cases (eg a NAS), as the client accumulates files over
> months and years, the same file will be duplicated unchanged, across many
> media and datasets. Eg, Less than 10% (and
> shrinking) of our monthly full mail server backup is new files,
> the other 90% is also in the previous full backup.
> Regularly converting the oldest full backup into a reverse
> incremental backup allows the admin to keep access to old backup
> jobs, but remove all of the duplicated files, freeing up media.
>
> Notes: This feature was previously discussed on the bacula-devel list
> here:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-devel AT lists.sourceforge DOT
> net/msg04962.htm
I have added this feature request to the projects file.
Regards,
Kern
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