Re: [Bacula-users] Aggressively prune (and truncate) file volumes on Progressive backups...

2024-09-30 Thread Gary R. Schmidt
On 01/10/2024 00:26, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Mandi! Phil Stracchino In chel di` si favelave... Incidentally, the way I solved this was: — Use volumes ONCE — Prune expired volumes into the scratch pool — Regularly clean and delete all volumes found in the scratch pool (or, as an added later refi

Re: [Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

2024-09-30 Thread Dan Langille
On Mon, Sep 30, 2024, at 10:48 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote: > Mandi! Dan Langille > In chel di` si favelave... > >> From >> https://dan.langille.org/2023/12/24/backing-up-freebsd-with-bacula-via-zfs-snapshot/ >> : > > I'm still doing some experimentation on this, indeed. > > >> It doesn't all run a

Re: [Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

2024-09-30 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Josip Deanovic via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > Unless the "Ignore FileSet Change" option is used, Bacula will compare the MD5 > checksum of the Include/Exclude contents of the FileSet and decide whether a > Full backup is needed or not. > I don't recommend using this option

Re: [Bacula-users] Aggressively prune (and truncate) file volumes on Progressive backups...

2024-09-30 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Chris Wilkinson In chel di` si favelave... > Sure. I put it here. It's a bash script. will need a bit of tweaking for > your particular setup. > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WOFIjgZMx-XL2Jv7FqGupnjctLpUEhLG/view?usp=drivesdk OK, mostly understood. Bright idea! But for media purging

Re: [Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

2024-09-30 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Dan Langille In chel di` si favelave... > From > https://dan.langille.org/2023/12/24/backing-up-freebsd-with-bacula-via-zfs-snapshot/ > : I'm still doing some experimentation on this, indeed. > It doesn't all run as incrementals. If the list of DATASETS (see above URL) > does not ch

Re: [Bacula-users] Aggressively prune (and truncate) file volumes on Progressive backups...

2024-09-30 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Phil Stracchino In chel di` si favelave... > Incidentally, the way I solved this was: > — Use volumes ONCE > — Prune expired volumes into the scratch pool > — Regularly clean and delete all volumes found in the scratch pool (or, > as an added later refinement just in case of mishaps, any