Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] First Backup Completed - but still confusion, full backup only 23M?

2009-10-23 05:12:45
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] First Backup Completed - but still confusion, full backup only 23M?
From: Ralf Gross <Ralf-Lists AT ralfgross DOT de>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:08:09 +0200
Gabriel - IP Guys schrieb:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Drescher [mailto:drescherjm AT gmail DOT com]
> > Sent: 22 October 2009 18:13
> > To: Gabriel - IP Guys; bacula-users
> > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] First Backup Completed - but still
> > confusion, full backup only 23M?
> > 
> > 2009/10/22 Gabriel - IP Guys <Gabriel AT impactteachers DOT com>:
> > > Dear List,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Finally! After some help from you guys, I've managed to get my first
> > full
> > > backup running!! Admittedly, the FD, SD, and DIR are all on the same
> > > machine, and the client is the machine in question... BUT, I got it
> > to work!
> > > First time using Bacula, didn't know anything about it two weeks
> ago,
> > and
> > > I've finally got it running. Only problem is, my first backup was
> > only 21M
> > > ?!?!? I've got 1.5G on disk. Now, I know that there are compression
> > > algorithms, but HEY! They are not THAT good! Any ideas, hints, tips
> > as to
> > > why a full backup is only 23M?
> > >
> > 
> > Bacula by default does not cross filesystem boundaries. Could this be
> > the issue?
> > 
> > John
> 
> There are no other mounts - I have everything in on the one disk. Below
> is an excerpt from the logs - I was going to use pastebin, but that
> won't show up in the future on the list archives. 


> 22-Oct 23:10 Bacula-Director JobId 16: shell command: run BeforeJob
> "/usr/lib/bacula/make_catalog_backup bacula bacula"
> ...
>   Job:                    BackupCatalog.2009-10-22_23.10.00_38

what do you expect to be backed up from the BackupCatalog job? If you
want to backup something else, you have to define and run a different
job...


Ralf

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