Hello, bacula-users@ readers. I'm running bacula 5.0.3 on linux server with 2.1 TB NFS share and I'm trying to correctly limit my volumes and pools so that they wont grow larger than 2.1 TB.
I decided to size my pools following way: I defined 3 pools they are : "full pool" for full backups, "diff pool" for differential and "incr pool" for incremental. For "full pool" I use approximately 59% of NFS volume size this is about 1250 GB (250 * 5), for "diff pool" I use about 22% it is 480 GB (160 * 3) and for "incr pool" I use 19% from backup volume this is 400 GB (40 * 10). Do I understand right that maximum total space for all pools will be 2130 GB. My NFS volume size in GB is 2170. Do I calculate my "maximum volume bytes" and "maximum volumes" correct, e.g. can my pools grow larger than 2.1 TB? How many bytes metadata takes in volumes? Can anybody share his/her limits for pools? I'm just thinking that ten 40GB volumes for incremental backups is a bit an overkill. I'm going to backup about 10 *nix machines and pair of windows servers. Incremental backup of typical linux box right now is 6 to 100 megabytes, so I'm not sure about maximum volume bytes for "incr pool". pool { name = "full pool" pool type = backup action on purge = truncate autoprune = yes recycle = yes # e.g. fullvol-20101125 fullvol-20110312, ... label format = "fullvol-${Year}${Month}${Day+}" volume retention = 6 months maximum volume bytes = 250g maximum volume jobs = 40 maximum volumes = 5 } pool { name = "diff pool" pool type = backup action on purge = truncate autoprune = yes recycle = yes label format = "diffvol-${Year}${Month}${Day+}" volume retention = 6 months maximum volume bytes = 160g maximum volume jobs = 80 maximum volumes = 3 } pool { name = "incr pool" pool type = backup action on purge = truncate autoprune = yes recycle = yes label format = "incrvol-${Year}${Month}${Day+}" volume retention = 21 days maximum volume bytes = 10g maximum volume jobs = 200 maximum volumes = 40 } ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users