On Tuesday 03 April 2007 01:13, Arthur Emerson III wrote:
>
> Darien Hager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Are you reading from "Size:" or "Size on disk:"? If there is a
> > significant difference between the two, then that may indicate the
> > presence of "sparse files", in which case you will want to set
> > sparse=yes in your Fileset's Options{} block. It may also be a signal
> > that you have compression enabled on the disk, which you can check by
> > right-clicking on the folder (or suspect files within it), selecting
> > "Advanced", and seeing if anything has "Compress contents to save
> > disk space" ticked. Compressed files will often show with a different
> > non-black text color in Windows Explorer.
>
> When I did a restore of a Win2K3 VSS backup the other day, I
> noticed that the "System Volume Information" folder on the D:
> in question was around 3 gigs. I have no idea what purpose
> this folder serves, but suspect that both it and "RECYCLER"
> (deleted files in your recycle bin that are waiting to be emptied)
> may not be counted by Windows in it's total file size display
> due to being hidden/system folders, but *are* counted when Bacula
> backs them up.
>
> Feel free to list the files in the archive and add up the storage
> in these two folders from your backup to see if they account for
> the extra 3 gigs of backup size.....
I would second this suggestion, and even suggest try using the estimate
command and diverting the output to a file, then actually looking at what
files Bacula will backup. It can be very surprising.
Here is a rough idea of what to do -- I'll undoubtely make mistakes because
this is off the top of my head:
./bconsole
@output /tmp/listing
estimate job=xxx listing level=full
@output
quit
look at /tmp/listing
and obviously you should replace xxx with the name of your Job.
>
> -Arthur
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