Chris Sarginson wrote: > Hi Dave, > > We have a similar idea - the way we utilise bacula however is just to > create a single pool for a client, and then set their quota as the > Maximum Volume Bytes * Maximum Volumes. > > This works for us simply because the client then has a definitive quota > set which we can modify by increasing the Maximum Volumes settings, and > having a File Retention of whatever time is required (1 week/month) > whatever. You just need to make sure you have enough space :) >
Close I think. I believe that setting XX volumes of 1GB each in a single pool for each client. Then setting the following in the client's Pool resource. Maximum Volume Jobs = 0 Maximum Volume Bytes = 1,073,741,824 Volume Retention = 7 days AutoPrune = yes Recycle = yes Recycle Oldest Volume = yes Purge Oldest Volume = yes As I understand the manual, when backup time arrives Bacula will use the oldest volumes first and purge whatever data is necessary to recycle the oldest volume it finds. This would hold true regardless of retention periods. So if the client had 60GB of storage allocated, they could retain up to 60GB of data for up to seven days. But if they needed to backup 60GB in one night, Bacula would recycle every volume to do do. Am I correct? DAve > Kind regards > > Chris Sarginson > Technical Support > UKFast.Net Ltd > > (t) 0870 111 8866 > (f) 0870 458 4545 > > "The UK's Best Hosting Provider" ISPA Awards 2007, 2006 and 2005 > > Dedicated Servers - Managed Hosting - Domain Names- http://www.ukfast.net > > UKFast.Net Ltd, City Tower, Piccadilly Plaza, Manchester, M1 4BT > Registered in England. Number 384 5616 > > DAve wrote: >> Good afternoon, >> >> We have been using Bacula for a while now and having good success within >> our NOCs. We have a problem still, though not with Bacula itself. >> >> Currently we configure three pools per client. A full pool which is used >> on the 1st Sun, a Diff pool which is used on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th >> Sun, and a Inc pool which is used on Mon-Sat. We followed the example at >> http://bacula.org/rel-manual/Automated_Disk_Backup.html >> >> Unfortunately this allows some clients to greatly exceed their alloted >> space. I think it is our fault for not configuring Bacula properly. I >> would like to know if we can create 1GB volumes up to the client's >> alloted space and then configure Bacula to use them to best advantage. >> IE keep as much data as possible, but complete the scheduled backup even >> if pruning all previous data is required to fit the current backup >> within the volumes. >> >> I am still reading through the manual again but I am not seeing a >> possible solution, though I believe it is there. >> >> Can anyone point me at a solution, a chapter/section to read, or an example? >> >> Thank you. >> >> DAve >> >> > -- I've been asking Google for a Veteran's Day logo since 2000, maybe 1999. I was told they finally did a Veteran's Day logo, but none of the links I was given return anything but a normal Google logo. Sad, very sad. Maybe the Chinese Government didn't like it? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
