I can't see the image, this would be the link to imgur: https://imgur.com/a/hxfl3n4
And another try to include it: [image: Diagram_Backup_Strategy_old.png] [email protected] schrieb am Freitag, 26. Juni 2020 um 10:04:49 UTC+2: > Hello, > > First of all, thanks for the commands, those helped me much and I think I > should use the bconsole more often instead of the GUI. > I think I know what the problem is. I had a long-term job at the beginning > and somehow this is where my storage got eaten up. > There are consolidated jobs, which are not touched since 15 days and list > "jobs volume=AI-Consolidated-0001" returns nothing. > I will clean them up manually. > > Our goal was to do always incremental backups every 7 days, but with > monthly backups for three months. > Until now, we had a script which writes hardlinks everywhere it can, so > there every backup was a full backup and even the 3 month old was in the > incremental chain. > This will save huge ammounts of space. > Is this also possible with bareos? > > For illustration purpose: > > Thanks in Advance, > > Simon > [email protected] schrieb am Donnerstag, 25. Juni 2020 um 16:34:37 > UTC+2: > >> What is the status of those volumes? >> >> >> list volume pool=AI-Consolidated >> >> If the status is Purged, those volumes have not been recycled. If you >> want to free the space back up before Bareos re-uses them you can truncate >> them >> >> truncate volstatus=Purged pool=AI-Consolidated yes >> >> That will set the volumes back to size zero. Bareos tries to preserve >> data. So even if the file and job records have been purged from the catalog >> it leaves the data so in a pinch you can always use bextract / bls to get >> back data from an old volume. This is more a hold over from tape where you >> won’t overwrite the data till you need the capacity. >> >> If the volumes are not purged look at what jobs are left on them, and >> check your prune, incrmental timeouts/counts in settings >> >> list jobs volume=AI-Consolidated-0001 >> >> >> Brock Palen >> 1 (989) 277-6075 <(989)%20277-6075> >> [email protected] >> www.mlds-networks.com >> Websites, Linux, Hosting, Joomla, Consulting >> >> >> >> > On Jun 24, 2020, at 9:11 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > Hello >> > >> > I'm trying to set up always incremental jobs. >> > The storage target is ceph, so one big storage target. >> > I have read many guides and believe I did the right configuration, just >> some timing problems. >> > When a consolidation Job runs, it starts a new one with the level >> "VirtualFull", that's correct, isn't it? >> > >> > The other question is, how to efficiently eliminate physically used >> volume storage, not used in bareos? >> > A "du -skh" in the cephfs tells me, there is 3.2TB storage used, but in >> the job list, the full Consolidated job is 1.06 TB and the other >> incrementlas are like 700GB, so where are those 1.5TB from? >> > >> > [root@testnode1 ~]# ls -lah /cephfs/ >> > total 3.2T >> > drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 21 Jun 24 01:00 . >> > dr-xr-xr-x. 18 root root 258 Jun 17 10:04 .. >> > -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 200G Jun 11 16:04 AI-Consolidated-0001 >> > -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 200G Jun 11 17:50 AI-Consolidated-0002 >> > -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 200G Jun 11 19:20 AI-Consolidated-0003 >> > -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 200G Jun 11 20:35 AI-Consolidated-0004 >> > -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 176G Jun 11 21:44 AI-Consolidated-0005 >> > -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 200G Jun 23 16:18 AI-Consolidated-0013 >> > -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 200G Jun 23 18:00 AI-Consolidated-0014 >> > -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 200G Jun 23 19:16 AI-Consolidated-0015 >> > -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 200G Jun 23 20:34 AI-Consolidated-0016 >> > -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 200G Jun 23 21:52 AI-Consolidated-0017 >> > -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 49G Jun 23 22:12 AI-Consolidated-0018 >> > -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 200G Jun 15 11:25 AI-Incremental-0007 >> > -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 200G Jun 15 13:04 AI-Incremental-0008 >> > -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 200G Jun 19 00:27 AI-Incremental-0009 >> > -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 200G Jun 20 01:22 AI-Incremental-0010 >> > -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 200G Jun 21 00:33 AI-Incremental-0011 >> > -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 200G Jun 24 01:00 AI-Incremental-0012 >> > -rw-r----- 1 bareos bareos 27G Jun 24 01:25 AI-Incremental-0019 >> > >> > Is there a way to view this efficiently, or do I have to search my way >> from job to job? >> > >> > Thanks in advance >> > Simon >> > >> > -- >> > 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 view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/50bfad73-bf8d-4506-93e7-afa0afa91939n%40googlegroups.com. >> >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. 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