>>>>> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:36:31 +1000, Leni Mayo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Leni> I'd like to image a windows desktop by booting into knoppix and using Leni> bacula to backup the ntfs partitions. I thought this'd be a nice way Leni> to do disaster recovery. Leni> The trouble is that the desktop has a big hard disk, most of which is Leni> empty. Leni> Neither the sparse nor compression options seem to much reduce the Leni> data size written by the storage daemon. It's clear that the whole Leni> partition is being backed up, not just the data. Leni> I guess that the sparse=yes option doesn't have any effect because the Leni> block size of 32k isn't granular enough to find the empty disk space Leni> on NTFS. Leni> The compression=GZIP doesn't seem to help either, though as an Leni> experiment I gzipped the resulting volume and it did shrink by 1/3. Leni> If anyone can think of a workaround I'd be interested to hear. Maybe the free space on your disk contains old data, so that can't be compressed too well (not sure why gzip would do better though)? There might be some disk scrubbing tools that would fix this. __Martin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
