Ralf Gross wrote: > 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 Sorry, I meant Thunderbird mailboxes on clients, and as far as I know Thunderbird does not support maildir. I guess the rsync et al. would handle the large files in the same way as Bacula, but most of the machines are running Windows, so this is not an option anyway.
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