Bareos will keep provisioning volumes trying to avoid blowing away data until
it absolutely have to. The retentions are much more about when they become a
candidate for purge.
I personally have a script I run after some jobs so they actually get pruned
when ready and truncated/recycled:
#!/bin/bash
for x in `echo "list volumes pool=AI-Consolidated" | bconsole | grep -v "list
volumes" | grep AI-Consolid | awk -F\| '{print $3}'`
do
echo "prune volume=$x yes"
done | bconsole
# actaully free up disk space
echo "truncate volstatus=Purged pool=AI-Consolidated yes" \
| bconsole
This gets ran once a day and wipes out all the volumes that are past retention
but not being marked used/purged.
This works well for me, and I also have a tape drive (copy jobs) and in the
tape world it makes a lot more sense.
Brock Palen
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> On Apr 8, 2020, at 1:18 PM, Andy Bird <ajb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> HI all
>
> no matter how many times I read the page on volume management I cant get my
> head around it.
>
> I have 3 servers with 4tb of storage each. I cant seem to figure out how to
> stop baroes simply eating all the space up. Here are my pools..
>
> Pool {
> Name = Differential
> Pool Type = Backup
> Recycle = yes # Bareos can automatically recycle
> Volumes
> AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
> Volume Retention = 15 days # How long should the Differential
> Backups be kept? (#09)
> Maximum Volume Bytes = 10G # Limit Volume size to something
> reasonable
> Maximum Volumes = =100 # Limit number of Volumes in Pool
> Label Format = "Differential-" # Volumes will be labeled
> "Differential-<volume-id>"
> }
> Pool {
> Name = Full
> Pool Type = Backup
> Recycle = yes # Bareos can automatically recycle
> Volumes
> AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
> Volume Retention = 30 days # How long should the Full Backups be
> kept? (#06)
> Maximum Volume Bytes = 50G # Limit Volume size to something
> reasonable
> Maximum Volumes = 50 # Limit number of Volumes in Pool
> Label Format = "Full-" # Volumes will be labeled
> "Full-<volume-id>"
> }
> Pool {
> Name = Incremental
> Pool Type = Backup
> Recycle = yes # Bareos can automatically recycle
> Volumes
> AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
> Volume Retention = 15 days # How long should the Incremental
> Backups be kept? (#12)
> Maximum Volume Bytes = 1G # Limit Volume size to something
> reasonable
> Maximum Volumes = 200 # Limit number of Volumes in Pool
> Label Format = "Incremental-" # Volumes will be labeled
> "Incremental-<volume-id>"
> }
>
>
>
> why does it just keep eating space?
>
> There are files in there that date back to Dec
>
> -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 1073737943 Dec 7 21:15 Incremental-0081
> -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 1073727886 Dec 7 21:12 Incremental-0073
> -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 175545854 Dec 6 21:21 Incremental-0067
> -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 1073737881 Dec 6 21:20 Incremental-0066
> -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 1073737929 Dec 6 21:15 Incremental-0064
> -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 1073737954 Dec 6 21:14 Incremental-0063
> -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 1073695474 Dec 6 21:13 Incremental-0053
> -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 109995168 Dec 5 21:20 Incremental-0041
> -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 1073737947 Dec 5 21:14 Incremental-0038
> -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 1073737901 Dec 5 21:13 Incremental-0037
> -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 1073708261 Dec 5 21:12 Incremental-0031
> -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 905668495 Dec 4 21:18 Incremental-0030
> -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 1073737945 Dec 4 21:13 Incremental-0029
> -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 1073716507 Dec 4 21:11 Incremental-0024
> -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 9549404191 Dec 4 16:05 Full-0021
> -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 4225951421 Dec 3 13:46 Full-0010
>
>
> why have these not been recycled?
> Why do I have files older than 30 days?
>
> so confused
>
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