Re: [Bacula-users] including a file twice

>On 5/20/13 15:14 Dimitri Maziuk wrote:

>Hi all,

>quick question: if I include a file twice in the FileSet will bacula
>back it up twice or is it smart enough to only write one copy of it?

>TIA

I think you want:

http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/main/main/File_Deduplication_using_Ba.html

From: melvin.ross AT gmail DOT com [mailto:melvin.ross AT gmail DOT com]
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 4:32 PM
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net; Dimitri Maziuk
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] including a file twice

I'd imagine that since files get backed up according to their absolute paths in the file system that you'd only get one copy. That's just a guess from doing restores and poking around at the database. If not, I'd imagine that the scenario could really make muck up a backup. How would it know where to seek in the tape? I guess it could just select the first position and ignore the second....

On 5/20/13 15:14 Dimitri Maziuk wrote:

Hi all,

quick question: if I include a file twice in the FileSet will bacula
back it up twice or is it smart enough to only write one copy of it?

TIA

Dimitri Maziuk
Programmer/sysadmin
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu

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