On 11/05/2015 11:02 AM, Wesley Render wrote: > > In case this helps anyone. I ended up having problems with setting > volume limits. For example I suddenly decided to adjust our > incremental backups to run every 4 hours, and started reaching volume > limits with errors. > > From what I have read in the documentation setting "Volume Use > Duration" will effectively cause new volumes to be created, and old > ones to be recycled based on the Volume Retention. Since I monitor > servers disk space and this is just disk based backup, if I get an > alert that the storage space on the backup space is filling up I will > then look at reducing the retention periods on the volume sets.
FWIW I've been using
Pool {
...
Maximum Volumes = X
Maximum Volume Bytes = Y
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Purge Oldest Volume = yes
Recycle Oldest Volume = yes
}
(where X*Y = 90-ish% of storage disk size) for years without problems.
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Dimitri Maziuk
Programmer/sysadmin
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu
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