Hello,
On 13.09.2005 15:33, Bill Szkotnicki wrote:
Hello Arno,
I am trying to do just that.
Disk to disk, one partition (NFS actually on a remote storage device)
Below you suggest that it is possible to limit the number of volumes used.
I don't think that is working for me so
How is it done?
Maximum Volumes in the pool definition is the directive you need to add.
In my case I have restricted the volume size to 20GB and I have tried to
schedule the FULL on the first day of the month with incrementals on the
other month days.
In your case, with a volumesize limit of 20GB, you could set maximum
volumes to, for example, 49, and would need about 1TB of storage. 20GB
would be the usual emergency space, because bacula doesn't stop writing
after exactly the maximum volume size given.
It seems to want to do fulls more frequently and just keeps labeling and
using new volumes. I can't see why.
I don't know about the full backups - what does the job report mail say?
- but bacula always first tries to use a new volume before it overwrites
existing data.
My config info is attached.
I looked through that, and didn't see anything definitely wrong.
However, I'm not sure how the schedules you use actually work, so I
suggest you use the console to print them out and go through the output.
After you worked through he slightly cryptic stuff, you should either
understand how the schedules are actually understood by bacula, or you
post the output here.
There is room for 2.5 FULL's in my partition and so I was hoping that it
would start using the volumes from the last FULL when it ran out doing the
current FULL.
See above - as long as there is an empty volume, or it can create new
volumes, bacula will do so.
Arno
Bill
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Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula & Disk-to-disk
Hi John,
On 12.09.2005 21:26, John wrote:
Does Bacula support disk-to-disk backups? ie. I use a partition to keep
the backups on?
You can keep backups in so-called volume files. These files are -
typically - in one directory per defined storage device, so yes, you can.
If you want to control the space taken by backups, you can define a
maximum number of volumes of a defined size and thus make sure your
backups don't exceed the available partition size. Just keep in mind
that you might need a considerable safety margin.
Arno
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