>>>>> On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 10:45:33 +0300, Dimitrios  said:
> 
> I'd like to backup my web server to my local system. So far everything seems
> to work fine, i've setup encryption via TLS (certificates, etc) and the
> services running under Fedora 7.
> 
> Unfortunately, there is one thing that i don't quite understand while
> reading the manual. I don't understand how to reserve 20 gigs of harddisk
> space for backups.
> 
> In other words, i'd like to force bacula to use /var/spool/bacula to store
> my backups and to make sure it uses maximum 20 gigs. Once those are filled,
> it should reuse them over and over again.
> 
> My pool looks like this, but i'm not sure if its doing what i described:
> 
> Pool {
>   Name = Default
>   Pool Type = Backup
>   Recycle = yes
>   AutoPrune = yes
>   Volume Retention = 365 days
>   Maximum Volumes = 1
>   Maximum Volume Bytes = 20g
> }
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

That is a bad configuration because bacula only recycles complete volumes, so
it will no recycle the 20g volume until all of it has reached its retention
period.

You probably want

Maximum Volumes = 20
Maximum Volume Bytes = 1g

__Martin

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