Hey, On Tuesday 14 March 2006 10:38, Patrick Van der Veken wrote:
> Pruning the volume manually beforehand would be cumbersome
> solution. How do you determine the volume name which needs to be
> pruned (the $1 variable)?
I'm not really promoting pruning volumes manually ("manually" meaning
"using bconsole's prune command", most likely from cron). I'm just
saying that I've noticed this behaviour and that I've had to work around
it.
That being said:
Our backup setup allows us to know the tape names prior to the actual
backup. We do full backups on mondays to two tapes called "monday1" and
"monday2" (surprise, surprise). We do incremental backups on Tuesday
through Thursday to tapes named similarly.
We also do full backups on Friday. For Friday we have four sets of two
tapes which are used every four weeks. Unfortunately Bacula doesn't
allow "every Xth week / day" in its schedules, so we have a pool
containing all weekly tapes. Simply doing some math with the current
date yields the names for the tapes that are due this week.
Like I said, we have a very predictable rotation. This might be totally
unusable in your situation.
Regards,
Mosu
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