I've set all the retention times to be the same as my current settings. Is there any reason to ensure that I have more than one Diff backup retained or more than one week of Inc. Backups?
Mark On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:17 AM, John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/10/5 Mark Coolen <mark.coo...@gmail.com>: >> I'm having a hard time configuring bacula to stay within the 1TB >> backup space I have available. I'm backing up Student, Teacher and >> Office files at a Secondary school. >> The total size of the files is ~200GB >> I'm running a Full backup on the 1st Sat. of the month, a Diff. on the >> 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Sat. and nightly Inc. backups Mon. - Fri. >> I'd like to retain the Full backups for as close to 3 months as I can >> get within the space. >> Inc. Jobs run around 10GB, Diff. Jobs run around 30GB (although I >> could lower the totals by eliminating some directories. >> >> Attached is my current director file. >> >> What am I doing wrong? >> > I would investigate the size of the volume files directly. Also > remember that changing the pool definitions does not affect already > existing volumes. They will retain their old restrictions unless you > specifically apply the new configuration in bacula using two update > statements.. I do not remember the exact syntax so I will search the > archives for that if you need this. > > John > -- ___________________________ | Coolen Software Solutions | +1.519.652.9378 | mark.coo...@gmail.com |___________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
