Wouldn't setting "Volume Use Duration" to 1 minute ensure that the volumes stop unbounded appending?
On Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 9:07:23 PM UTC-6 Brock Palen wrote: > I find it to be manageability. > The on disk volumes sitll act like tape, so while things prune, they are > effectively append only immutable. So you can only recycle them once > everything on the volume ages out. > > Setting size much like setting max age etc, is a way of capping unbouned > appending and never recovering space. > > I guess you could run into maximum filesize but I have really ran into > that on enterprise NAS like Isilon having 8TB max file size. Most > filesystems you would use on a direct attached system have no effective > limit. > > > Brock Palen > [email protected] > www.mlds-networks.com > Websites, Linux, Hosting, Joomla, Consulting > > > > > On Dec 12, 2024, at 2:27 PM, Jon Schewe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > When using file based backups what are the reasons for setting "Maximum > Volume Bytes"? > > If the filesystem supports files larger than any single backup would it > make sense to leave this unset and to set "Volume Use Duration" to > something really small and then each volume has a single job in it? > > > > > > -- > > 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 visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/46bdcbc8-d1d4-4615-8a4f-107cdcbc3659n%40googlegroups.com > . > > -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/ad1c50a6-c64b-4ff9-8e05-ea863b85543cn%40googlegroups.com.
