Re: [Bacula-users] Storage Management

2022-11-25 Thread Nick Bright
On 11/25/22 09:20, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: Can you share your pool resource configuration here? Bacula has many directives to different ways to recycle volumes, it would be nice to see how you have the pool configured. Sure, here is my pool configuration: Pool {   Name = File   Pool Type

Re: [Bacula-users] Storage Management

2022-11-25 Thread Josip Deanovic
On 2022-11-25 16:00, Nick Bright wrote: [...] inelegant. The system should automatically be pruning or at least allowing me to overwrite the old data - it ought to be cyclical - use the available disk space (17T) to back up systems, letting old backups fall off automatically so that new backups

Re: [Bacula-users] Storage Management

2022-11-25 Thread Ana Emília M . Arruda
Hello Nick, On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 4:00 PM Nick Bright wrote: > On 11/25/22 04:45, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: > > The easiest way is to allow Bacula to automatically prune Jobs and Files > from the Catalog. It means to have "AutoPrune = Yes" in both the Client > resource and in the Pool

Re: [Bacula-users] Storage Management

2022-11-25 Thread Nick Bright
On 11/25/22 04:45, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: The easiest way is to allow Bacula to automatically prune Jobs and Files from the Catalog. It means to have "AutoPrune = Yes" in both the Client resource and in the Pool resource. I already had AutoPrune = yes in both the client and pool; I had

Re: [Bacula-users] Storage Management

2022-11-25 Thread Ana Emília M . Arruda
Hello Nick, Bill, I'm here :-) Sorry for not jumping in earlier. Nick, I will try to summarize a bit about retention values and pruning/truncation in Bacula. Pruning is about "the deletion of jobs and files from Catalog". Automatic or manual prune will not touch the data in the volumes, but only