Re: [Bacula-users] Reusing a disk volume

2014-05-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* John Drescher (Fri, 16 May 2014 09:10:28 -0400) > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:08 AM, John Drescher wrote: > >> Maybe use duration of 59 days. Then volume retention in a few hours. > >> If you set use duration to a small number # > 0 you will only be able > >> to store data on the volume for tha

Re: [Bacula-users] Reusing a disk volume

2014-05-16 Thread Alan Brown
Use a new volume every day, then cycle them. You won't use any more space, you're just using it differently. On 16/05/14 14:19, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * John Drescher (Fri, 16 May 2014 09:08:40 -0400) > >>> Maybe use duration of 59 days. Then volume retention in a few hours. >>> If you set use

Re: [Bacula-users] Reusing a disk volume

2014-05-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* John Drescher (Fri, 16 May 2014 09:08:40 -0400) > > Maybe use duration of 59 days. Then volume retention in a few hours. > > If you set use duration to a small number # > 0 you will only be able > > to store data on the volume for that period. I believe a use duration > > of 0 means infinity (al

Re: [Bacula-users] Reusing a disk volume

2014-05-16 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:08 AM, John Drescher wrote: >> Maybe use duration of 59 days. Then volume retention in a few hours. >> If you set use duration to a small number # > 0 you will only be able >> to store data on the volume for that period. I believe a use duration >> of 0 means infinity (al

Re: [Bacula-users] Reusing a disk volume

2014-05-16 Thread John Drescher
> Maybe use duration of 59 days. Then volume retention in a few hours. > If you set use duration to a small number # > 0 you will only be able > to store data on the volume for that period. I believe a use duration > of 0 means infinity (although I could be wrong). Also remember that even on disk

Re: [Bacula-users] Reusing a disk volume

2014-05-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Thorsten Kampe (Fri, 16 May 2014 14:53:57 +0200) > > * John Drescher (Fri, 16 May 2014 08:37:31 -0400) > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Thorsten Kampe > > wrote: > > > My question is: will the above settings ensure that after about > > > sixty > > > days, the file volume size will reach its

Re: [Bacula-users] Reusing a disk volume

2014-05-16 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * John Drescher (Fri, 16 May 2014 08:37:31 -0400) >> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Thorsten Kampe >> wrote: >> > at the moment we have a single disk volume (file). We would like >> > to reuse this disk volume file so it will not grow inf

Re: [Bacula-users] Reusing a disk volume

2014-05-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* John Drescher (Fri, 16 May 2014 08:37:31 -0400) > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Thorsten Kampe > wrote: > > at the moment we have a single disk volume (file). We would like > > to reuse this disk volume file so it will not grow infinitely. > > [...] > > After two cycles (two months), we would

Re: [Bacula-users] Reusing a disk volume

2014-05-16 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > Hi, > > at the moment we have a single disk volume (file). We would like to > reuse this disk volume file so it will not grow infinitely. > > We have a monthly rotation schedule (this is actually the default > schedule): > > """ > # full bac