[ale] bacula

[Jim Popovitch]

Thanks for the answers Brian.


Chris, what happened to list traffic over the past few days?


-Jim P.

Brian Pitts wrote:
> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts wrote:
>> I've got a few bacula questions.....
>>
>> 1) is there a way to not store archive files on disk as one big (tape)
>> archive?
>>
> Not really. You can play with retention and recycling settings so that 
> you have multiple smaller volumes instead of one big one, but it's still 
> the same principle.
>> 2) how does bacula determine what needs to be archived on an incremental
>> backup (on both Linux and Windows systems)?
>>
> Bacula compares the start time of the last job against the time a file 
> was last modified or had its attributes changed.
>> 3) can bacula limit network traffic in similar fashion to rsync's
>> --bwlimit parameter?
>>
> Not that I recall.
> 
> I spent a long time looking at Bacula when I thought a tape drive was in 
> my future. When that fell through, I decided to stick with an 
> rsync-based backup solution.
> 
> -Brian
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