Hello,
On 3/1/2006 10:54 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
On 1 Mar 2006 at 16:42, Matthew Butt wrote:
I thought that may be the case. Bacula is a great system but every
solution I try with a disk-based backup fails for one reason or another
:( I'm sure it's perfect for tapes but I'm struggling to make it work
successfully with disks.
tapes/disks, bacula doesn't care.
That's (one of) the problem(s) for disk-based backups... wanting to
rename the volume files seems to be more common than I'd have guessed.
All I have is about 6 backup locations and I need to do a full monthly,
diff weekly and inc daily system. I have three USB drives - a 1TB unit
for fulls, a .5TB unit for diffs and a 250MB unit for incrementals.
It can't be this difficult!
Usually it's not.
I am not following this thread and have no idea what the problems
are. It sounds like you want to have date-specific filenames. Many
others have done this.
Bacula, by design, neither renames nor deletes Volumes. That is a
security issue.
If you want to delete older volumes, why not create a cronjob to do
that?
Just as a furher hint - I haven't implemented something like this
because I prefer volume names not be related to the contents - the way
I'd do this is as follows:
1. Search the catalog for pruned volumes
2. Send the commands to delete the volumes from the catalog using bconsole
3. If (2) succeeds, delete the corresponding file
This, done as an admin job or a cron job should work fine.
You don't reuse volumes, you replace them, but the outcome should be
identical for pracical purposes.
Arno
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