Mordechai T. Abzug wrote: > Does bacula support storing only one instance of a file that is > identical accross multiple machines? Ie. if the contents of, say, > /bin/ls are the same on a bunch of different hosts, is bacula smart > enough to only store it once on the volume?
If you look at the recent "Project voting" email, I think this is what Kern terms "Base Jobs". In short, no, not yet, but it's planned I think. > If you DO support such features, does bacula also support some sort of > logarithmic repitition for popular instances? Ie. if the file is > present on, say, 3 different systems, I might only want one copy of > it. But if it's on 50 different systems, I might want a few copies of > it, so if one of them has a media error, I don't lose this (very > important) file. Do you have this feature, too? Might be a nice tweak on the implementation of 'base jobs', although the restore code would need tweaking to handle the fact that data for a file could be found in multiple places. > Also, is bacula hard link aware? Ie. if I have a whole bunch of large > files with a bunch of hard links to them, and I restore, is the hard > link structure preserved? As far as I know, yes. I'd check with the manual on this (I think there used to be performance issues with large numbers of hard links or something - not sure). What I presume you're thinking of doing is using backuppc (or whatever the hardlinking backup software thingie is called) to provide a hardlinked backup of your boxes, and then back that up with bacula to save space. I think that should be possible in the absence of base jobs. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
