Forget to say that if your image are uncompressed tif for example they can be 
compressed 10/12 times.
So 3GB could become something aroud 300MB ...

Toni Mueller wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just added a new machine to my backup set and tried to run a full
> backup. The machine is basically configured like any other, in terms of
> what Bacula has to say, but the "compression ratio" was _much_ too good
> to be true (~250MB instead of 3 GB, most of it being images). Bacula
> claimed that the backup ran OK.
> 
> My backups go to disk, with one job = one file, roughly named
> "<hostname>_<level>_<timestam>".
> 
> I didn't manage to find out what files are actually in a given backup
> file, like outlined above. It would be sufficient for me to be able to
> use something like 'restore' from the ufsdump package, but I didn't
> find my way around 'bconsole' to achieve something similar. I also
> tried 'bat', but when I clicked on what I thought was the FileSet
> explorer (?), it simply hung after some 15-20 minutes (?), with
> three windows in solid grey (no buttons, diagrams, nothing).
> 
> These are two Debian/Lenny machines with bacula 2.4.4.
> 


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     Bruno Friedmann


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