Re: [Bacula-users] what strategy for backing up files only once?

Gavin McCullagh schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Ralf Gross wrote:
> 
> > I'm still thinking if it would be possible to use bacula for backing
> > up xxx TB of data, instead of a more expensive solution with LAN-less
> > backups and snapshots.
> > 
> > Problem is the time window and bandwith.
> 
> VirtualFull backups be a partial solution to your problem.   We have a
> laptop which we get very short backup time windows for -- never enough time
> to run a full backup.  Instead, we run incrementals (takes about 20% of the
> time) and then run virtualfull backups to consolidate them.  We never need
> to run real full backups.

Hm, I've to look into VirtualFull backups. But given that a single
file set will be ~10 TB, I'll still need the disk space twice as big (
I think).

Ralf

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