On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Chris Lieb <chris.lieb+nos...@gmail.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I am setting up Bacula right now for the first time and have pretty much > everything working, but have one nagging concern. Since Bacula was > designed around tape backup systems, it supports recycling of volumes so > that they can be used again after a certain period of time. However, I > do not think that this is very useful for a hard drive-based backup setup. > > My setup currently is using the three pool system (Full-Diff-Incr) that > is mentioned in the Bacula documentation. My labeling scheme produces a > unique label for every volume (1 job per volume). When a volume reaches > a certain age, based on the pool that it is in, I want the volume to be > deleted from disk instead of recycled. You can purge files from the > database as part of the configuration, but I don't see any way to have > Bacula delete volumes over a certain age. > Bacula does not delete volumes from the disk.
> How can this be achieved? I am using Bacula 2.4.4 for my director, > storage, and all file daemons, with the director and storage daemons > running on a current Linux install and the backups being stored onto > their own hard drive. > If you really want to do this you will have to roll your own solution. Most likely this will involve a cron job scripting commands to bconsole. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
