>>>>> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 11:32:30 -0400, Mark Coolen said: > > 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?
It depends on your reason for doing backups. If you just want disaster recovery for the most recent state of the filesystem, then you don't need to keep older Diff backups. OTOH, if you want to be able to restore a file created two weeks ago that a user accidentally deleted on a Friday then you will need to keep more Diff backups. __Martin > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
