Hi, On 6/28/2006 5:09 PM, DAve wrote: > Good morning, > > We have been running Bacula on a few webservers with great success but > we find we need to reduce the retention period on one server. We > currently have the following setup. ... > Frankly it is more than we need and is taking up a considerable amount > of space. I would like to reduce it but I am not sure how to do so > without losing data.
Modify the configuration. Reload or restart Bacula. Modify the volume retention periods using the 'update' command in the console. Wait for the automatic recycling to happen, so Bacula reuses the used space, or manually purge volumes (carefullly!) or 'delete' jobs or media as is necessary for you. Hope that helps, Arno > bash-2.05b# ls -lah > total 132861382 > drwx------ 3 bacula bacula 512B Jul 25 2005 . > drwxr-xr-x 17 1163 nogroup 512B Jun 22 10:41 .. > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 189M Jun 23 02:10 Cat-0001 > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 150M Jun 28 02:10 Cat-0002 > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 197M Jun 5 02:10 Cat-0003 > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 179M Jun 11 02:10 Cat-0004 > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 171M Jun 17 02:10 Cat-0005 > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 1.9G May 21 02:08 Diff-0001 > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 2.3G May 28 02:09 Diff-0002 > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 3.0G Jun 11 02:10 Diff-0003 > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 5.5G Jun 18 02:17 Diff-0004 > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 4.3G Jun 25 02:13 Diff-0005 > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 1.4G May 14 02:07 Diff-0006 > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 7.8G Mar 5 01:27 Full-0001 > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 8.5G Apr 2 01:30 Full-0002 > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 9.4G May 7 02:31 Full-0003 > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 9.3G Jun 4 02:34 Full-0004 > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 8.1G Jan 1 01:30 Full-0005 > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 7.8G Feb 5 01:30 Full-0006 > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 8.6G Jun 9 02:07 Inc-0001 > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 12G Jun 28 02:09 Inc-0002 > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 13G Jun 16 02:09 Inc-0003 > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 16G Jun 23 02:08 Inc-0004 > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 6.9G Jun 2 02:06 Inc-0005 > > I am looking at changing my pools to a full backup each week for a > month, and a differential each day through the week. The million dollar > question is how can I tell Bacula to do the pruning for me so I retain > the proper data. > > Thanks, > > DAve > -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
