Re: [Bacula-users] Safely reusing tapes that are still labelled as Full
Hello, I set my volume retention time to one year, but currently I do not have enough tapes to keep them a year, which means that ultimately Bacula asks me to label a new tape, which I don't have. So what I do from time to time is select oldest Volume that is marked Full (or sometimes Error) and I purge it. For me (may not be your case) the risk that I lose some valid data is essentially zero because the other volumes have many Full backups on them. In addition when I have needed to restore data it has always been to restore the most recent backups. Obviously the best situation is to have sufficient backup space (either on disk or tape) to be able to keep backups for the period you specify as your Volume Retention time. Best regards, Kern On 7/10/19 2:07 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 7/9/19 2:30 PM, William Muriithi wrote: Hello I stated using bacula about 6 months ago. When I originally set it up, I just specified Volume retention period. The File Retention period, and the Job Retention period periods are longer and hence most of the tapes aren't still labelled as ready for recycle. Since I have almost used up all the tapes now, I want to re-use the older once but I am wondering what would be the safest way to ensure I can choose tapes that will never be needed should I require getting some data from the backups.? Regards, William Honestly, if you have inconsistent retention times, you're largely just going to have to figure out for yourself which volumes are safe for you to purge and reuse. ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Safely reusing tapes that are still labelled as Full
> Hello Hello William, > I stated using bacula about 6 months ago. When I originally set it up, I just > specified Volume retention period. The File Retention period, and the Job > Retention period periods are longer and hence most of the tapes aren't still > labelled as ready for recycle. > > Since I have almost used up all the tapes now, I want to re-use the older once > but I am wondering what would be the safest way to ensure I can choose tapes > that will never be needed should I require getting some data from the > backups.? AFAIK the most important retential is the Volume one, since you can always rebuild File and Job Catalog Tables information with bscan. Job and File retentions don't prevent the Volume being recycled. However, Bacula only recycle volumes when new backups have demand to write empty ones (with stock configurations). > Regards, Regards, > William > > ___ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- MSc Heitor Faria CEO Bacula LATAM mobile1: + 1 909 655-8971 mobile2: + 55 61 98268-4220 [ https://www.linkedin.com/in/msc-heitor-faria-5ba51b3 ] [ http://www.bacula.com.br/ ] América Latina [ http://bacula.lat/ | bacula.lat ] | [ http://www.bacula.com.br/ | bacula.com.br ] ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Safely reusing tapes that are still labelled as Full
On 7/9/19 2:30 PM, William Muriithi wrote: > Hello > > I stated using bacula about 6 months ago. When I originally set it up, I > just specified Volume retention period. The File Retention period, and the > Job Retention period periods are longer and hence most of the tapes aren't > still labelled as ready for recycle. > > Since I have almost used up all the tapes now, I want to re-use the older > once but I am wondering what would be the safest way to ensure I can choose > tapes that will never be needed should I require getting some data from the > backups.? > > Regards, > William Honestly, if you have inconsistent retention times, you're largely just going to have to figure out for yourself which volumes are safe for you to purge and reuse. -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications ph...@caerllewys.net p...@co.ordinate.org Landline: +1.603.293.8485 Mobile: +1.603.998.6958 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Safely reusing tapes that are still labelled as Full
Hello I stated using bacula about 6 months ago. When I originally set it up, I just specified Volume retention period. The File Retention period, and the Job Retention period periods are longer and hence most of the tapes aren't still labelled as ready for recycle. Since I have almost used up all the tapes now, I want to re-use the older once but I am wondering what would be the safest way to ensure I can choose tapes that will never be needed should I require getting some data from the backups.? Regards, William ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
