On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 17:03 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Tuesday 06 September 2005 12:52, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Gert Burger wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 11:52 +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > I do have automatic naming on. If I limit the amount of volumes, will it > > > remove the old ones? > > > > Not as far as I know, > > Correct. > > > but you can simply try it. > > > > This is an interesting subject because Bacula treats disk volumes as closely > as possible to tape volumes. That is it never truncates a disk volume unless > it would do the same to a tape, which means the only time is as you > suggested, Arno, during a relabel. > > Somehow, though this is what I consider the proper behavior to maintain the > data the longest possible, it seems that users like to name their volumes > with dates and such rather than simply numbering them and letting Bacula > cycle through a fixed (or limited) set of volumes. Human nature I guess. > > I suppose that someday, I will need to add "Delete Purged Volumes" to the > ever > growing list of directives ... :-) >
Now, my last question. How can I go from autonaming to a fixed set of volumes without losing any backups, except the ones that will be re-used? I do not have the option of making a copy of all the volumes as that mounts to around 1TB, which I nor the deparment I work can provide atm. Thanks alot so far for the help. Gert Burger > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
