elppmac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> I am currently using Postgres as my database server for Bacula. As of now,
> the data under /var/lib/postgres/data has grown to 84 GB. Is there a way to
> reduce the amount of space bacula requires to backup files? I am currenlty
> backing up about 160 GB compressed data on tape backup. 
> 
> 
> I tried running vacuum full verberos on the database and prune some of the
> files from Bacula ,but the data directory remains the same size. 
> 
> Could some one please help. Thanks in advance.

Have you run dbcheck?  Read the docs on it.  It's the number of backups
times the number of files that bloats the database.

Once dbcheck has cleaned up any Bacula bloat, do the standard Postgres
stuff to clean up any database bloat: vacuum full and reindex, for
example.

-- 
Bill Moran

Also, I can kill you with my brain.

    River Tam



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