Backups allowing individual file restoration

[Paul Howarth]

Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 11:36 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>Gerry Doris wrote:
>>
>>>I'm looking for an application that will create an image of a full 
>>>Fedora drive that can be used for either a bare metal restore or can be 
>>>used to restore individual directories or files.  I use Partition Image 
>>>for this for my Window boxes.
>>>
>>>I've tried using Partimage.  It's a great program but it only creates 
>>>images of complete partitions and can only restore the complete 
>>>partition...no directory or file access.  It looks like G4U and G4L 
>>>actually use Partimage so I assume they work the same.
>>>
>>>I don't want to use either CD's or DVD's.  I would like to 
>>>backup/restore either to another hard drive on the system being backed 
>>>up or across my network to a server.
>>>
>>>Any reommendations would be appreciated.
>>
>>bacula can backup to disks on the same or other servers. Moreover, it 
>>keeps a database of the backed-up files, allowing retrieval of 
>>individual files by date if required. Bare metal restores are also possible.
>>
>>Highly recommended.
>>
>>http://www.bacula.org/
>>
>>Paul.
>>
> 
> I tried bacula and went back to mondorescue.  
> 
> It seemed bacula does no compression so it relies on the native
> compression on the tape drives to save space.  It wasted a lot of drive
> space to do a backup to drive.
> 
> MondoRescue OTOH does compression to the level (0 - 9) you specify so
> the savings in drive space for the backups on my system was more than
> 50%.

I think you must have missed the section on "compression=GZIP" in the 
fileset options. See: 
http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/dirdconf.html#FileSetResource

Paul.