Gilberto Nunes wrote:
> Hi buddies
> 
> I have a doubt.
> 
> A new client ask me if bacula do backup bit to bit or not...
> 
> I don't know what exactly this mean, but whatever: bacula do this or not??
> 
> Thanks

Hi.

Perhaps they were asking if Bacula can back up at the device level?
The documentation for the FileSet Resource states that if you explicitly
specify a block device such as /dev/hda1 in a FileSet then Bacula as of
version 1.28 will assume it is a raw partition to be backed up.
It also recommends that if you use this, that you specify sparse=yes
as well to only store the data in the partition, rather than the whole
partition byte for byte.

Example from the manual:

     Include {
       Options { signature=MD5; sparse=yes }
       File = /dev/hd6
     }

Regards,

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Jim Barber
DDI Health

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