Tomas Vondra schrieb:
> 
> I'm quite new to Bacula but I'd like to use it to backup several "office 
> computers" in an organized way. The only thing I'm not sure about is 
> whether Bacula is able to backup huge files (say 2GiB) that change quite 
> often (several times a day) but only a small fraction of them change 
> (most of the file does not change). This is the case with mailboxes for 
> example - the "inbox" / "sent" files change quite often, but only a 
> small fraction of them really changes. The machines to be backed up are 
> not located in the same city, and there are constraints related to line 
> speed / time etc. I'd like to transmit / backup only the parts that 
> changed, but I believe the "incremental" and "differential" backup mode 
> is related only to whole files, not to their content - is there such 
> feature or is there some other way to handle such scenario?

I'm not sure if rsync/rsnapshot/backuppc handels these things better,
but I think changing from mbox to maildir format would be a good idea
in this case anyway.

Ralf

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