> > 3) Don't consolidate every day. Consolidation is great for recovering > > unused > > space on storage volumes, but doing that daily is overkill. > > I believe it is consolidating daily only because of the always incremental, > where it needs the consolidate job to kick off a virtual full. It's > dynamically > doing virtual fulls based on retention period, but the daily has to run for it > to be considered.
Russell - I'm not following the logic here. You should absolutely run the AI backup every day, that drives your RPO. The Consolidate job is purely administrative and can be run as often or as seldom as you like. It serves the purpose of reducing the total number of volumes in your pools (critical for physical tape, but not a big deal for disk storage), reducing wasted space in your pools (caused by jobs that may have expired from the volume or files that have been deleted from the backup set (which is not generally a day-to-day issue, but can be over long periods) and reducing the number of volumes required for a restore (critical for physical tape, but not a big deal for disk storage). I ended up consolidating every 4th day based on facts like how many clients, how many virtual fulls per consolidate, how long I wanted the consolidate job to take, how my offsite data is written, what my offsite expiration time is, etc. My objective was more or less to do it as infrequently as I could get away with. Objectives and solutions vary by user ;-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
