Backups allowing individual file restoration

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 17:13 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 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.
> 
Thanks Paul, I will look at that again.
Jeff