Hello, I realize that Bacula was originally developed for tape based backup systems, but disk space is becoming more inexpensive everyday. It is cheaper and more reliable to maintain a system which uses disk based mediums to store backup data. The problem is that disk based restores are unnecessarily slow, due to the linear nature of the backup volumes.
I am addressing this problem because at some point it would be necessary to access old backup archives should anyone implement an rsync or xdelta type enhancement for Bacula. Perhaps instead of storing individual file locations in the catalog, an index of the backup could be stored at the beginning or end of a volume, so that unnecessary "forward spacing" would no longer be needed for disk based volumes. This extra would also make the process of recovering catalog information from volumes much less painful. Just a suggestion.. Sincerely, -- Michael Short Securenets (901) 233-9926 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
