Comments on: Bacula Design ‘Feature’ http://www.eztiger.org/2008/08/bacula-design-feature/ Tech tips from the weary Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:34:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: dvl http://www.eztiger.org/2008/08/bacula-design-feature/#comment-2 dvl Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:28:58 +0000 http://www.eztiger.org/?p=12#comment-2 What you are talking about is a synthetic backup. It is more complicated than you think, especially in a client-server environment. What you get back is more than you expect, yes. Sysadmins are quite familiar with this situation. Work has not been underway since 2005. The date (28 November 2005) is the date upon which Martin Simmons submitted the feature request. If you wish to test out this new feature, it is available within the repository but has not yet been released. -- cheers What you are talking about is a synthetic backup. It is more complicated than you think, especially in a client-server environment.

What you get back is more than you expect, yes. Sysadmins are quite familiar with this situation.

Work has not been underway since 2005. The date (28 November 2005) is the date upon which Martin Simmons submitted the feature request.

If you wish to test out this new feature, it is available within the repository but has not yet been released.

– cheers

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