Re: [Bacula-users] volume management on a storage File

[Robert Du Gaue]

Yeah, option 1. We learned the hard way how its the all-or-nothing.  :-[  When that HD fills up the first thing that'll happen is a volume purge, loosing everything. Also we found breaking up the volumes helps with restoration when a catalog isn't available (avoids rescanning a huge file). From experience, limit your volume size to about 10%-15% of the HD capacity. IE, 1TB drive, volume size 100GB. And then set your max volume on the pool to ((HD space/volume space) - 1) so you don't need to worry about a full HD. Lukasz Szybalski wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:58 AM, John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Lukasz Szybalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I've initially setup bacula(1.38 on Debian stable) to use one volume, but now I'm reaching my capacity. 729G 2008-12-08 09:27 bacula20080801 It obviously was already 3 months since we were doing backups, so to lower the size of the backup file I would like to remove the 1st month backup aka 200808. How can that be done? File retention is set to 30 days and job retention is set to 6 months, but it doesn't look like the files older then 30 days get deleted. Should my volume be split up into smaller size volumes? Yes. Retention will not work if you do not have at least 2 volumes and limit the volume size to a reasonable size. ok. What are my options then? I have 100GB left. I guess my option would be to: 1. Delete current volumes and start from scratch, 2, Migrate it somehow to a smaller volumeS? 3. ? Thanks, Lucas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.15/1837 - Release Date: 12/8/2008 9:38 AM -- ------------------------------- Robert Du Gaue President/CEO CalWeb Internet Services, Inc. (916) 641-9320 -------------------------------

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