Well that clears pretty much all those questions up for me. Thanks very
much for the quick response.
On 5/29/07, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
On 5/29/2007 9:35 PM, Bob Gamble wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I first started using bacula about 5 months ago, I used one
> volume for everything.
Oh. That's not really a good idea.
> All seemed to be fine until I realized how
> quickly I was going to use up the 2.5 terabytes. At the time, I
> wrongly assumed six months would pass and I would have plenty of space
> after the volume was recycled.
>
> Now, I have very little space left. I've split each backup into their
> own pools (as described in
> http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Automated_Disk_Backup.html
> <http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Automated_Disk_Backup.html>) and the
> large volume is no longer being written to as of the first week of
> May. If I understand the documentation correctly I can recapture hard
> drive space like this:
>
> Change the VolRetention period to three months instead of six (which I
did)
>
> Set Autoprune and Recycle to Yes
>
> I'm hoping the VolRetention is measured from when the volume was first
> used, which is back in January or February,
No, the retention period starts when the volume was last used.
Otherwise, you might lose valid backups.
> and that even though the
> available disk space on the bacula server shows less than 100 gb left,
> it will overwrite space that has been taken up by the single large
> volume when another volume needs the space.
No, it will overwrite th huge volume only when it's recycled, which will
not happen before the retention time has passed.
> That is essentially my question. If I understand correctly, since
> bacula holds on to data as long is it can until more space is needed,
> will the bacula server at some point, always have a full hard drive?
Not necessarily. In your setup, though, probably.
> If I'm wrong, when does it clear the space taken by expired retention
> periods? I wonder what options I have to save the last three months
> of backups from the large volume while removing the backups whose time
> has expired. Is there a way to do this?
Set up migration (you'll need a second sorage device for it which could
use the same archive directory) and migrate the valid jobs from the huge
volume. Afterwards, manually recycle that volume. When it's re-used,
Bacula will truncate it and your disk space will look much nicer :-)
> Or do I need to just remove
> the large volume to make more space? Thank you for any tips.
That would be the simplest solution, but you will lose some backups you
might consider valuable.
Arno
> --
> BobG
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express
> Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take
> control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now.
> http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bacula-users mailing list
> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
--
IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express
Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take
control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now.
http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/
_______________________________________________
Bacula-users mailing list
Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express
Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take
control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now.
http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/
_______________________________________________
Bacula-users mailing list
Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
