>From what I undestand of the manual and fd source code Bacula is actually reading all 1.2 Tb of data to scan for blocks with all zero's. I could imagine this takes time. What is actually stored in /var/log/lastlog? Is it worth being backed up?
Pieter Scott Ruckh wrote: > > > This is what you said Pieter (NL) >> >> Did you look, with for example wx-console, if the files you didn't want >> to >> be >> backed up are indeed excluded to make sure if your fileset is or isn't >> the >> problem >> >> Pieter >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Backups-too-big%2C-and-other-questions-t1502635.html#a4083663 >> Sent from the Bacula - Users forum at Nabble.com. > > Backing up the sparse file (1.2TB in size (64K actual size)), with the > spase otion enabled for the file, still takes about 2.5 hours to backup. > Does this sound correct? > > That is an improvement on the 7 hours without sparse enabled, but I would > have guessed that backing up a sparse file whose actual file size is 64K > would only take a matter of seconds. > > Here is the new FileSet with the sparse option enabled: > > FileSet { > Name = "Firewall Full" > > Include { > Options { > signature = MD5 > sparse = yes > compression = GZIP > } > File = /var/log/lastlog > } > > Include { > Options { > compression = GZIP > signature = MD5 > wildfile = "/var/log/lastlog" > wildfile = "/.journal" > wildfile = "/.fsck" > wilddir = /proc > wilddir = /tmp > wilddir = /sys > wilddir = /dev > wilddir = /mnt > wilddir = /BACKUPS > wilddir = /var/spool/squid > Exclude = yes > } > File = / > File = /boot > File = /home > File = /var > } > } > > I could probably remove /wildir = /BACKUPS as /BACKUPS is its own > filesystem, but I included it for readability. > > If this is still not the correct way to handle the sparse file, please let > me know. > > Thanks. > Scott > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Backups-too-big%2C-and-other-questions-t1502635.html#a4102834 Sent from the Bacula - Users forum at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
