According to everything I am reading in the manual, "Bacula will only recycle
purged Volumes if there is no other appendable Volume available".
Is there a way to force Bacula to reverse this and always reuse a volume if
one is marked purged before checking for appendable volumes? We are doing
disk backups and have set expiry times for data. We want to use the least
disk space and still stay within our expiry times for all data, so we want
purged volumes from pruning based on our volume retention to be reused. We
also have set volume sizes, so that backups can be burned off to DVD's.
So far, the only think I have thought of is to have a set amount of volumes,
but it's not really accomplishing what I really want.
If anyone has any ideas, I'd be grateful. I would appreciate if you cc
[EMAIL PROTECTED], since I read this list online only.
Here's some snippets from our existing bacula-dir.conf that may be helpful (in
progress):
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#
# Bacula Director Configuration file
# [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
Director {
Name = fondue-dir
DIRport = 9101
QueryFile = "/etc/bacula/query.sql"
WorkingDirectory = "/srv/bacula"
PidDirectory = "/var/run"
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1
Password = "secret"
Messages = Daemon
}
JobDefs {
Name = "FullIncDiff"
Type = Backup
Storage = File
Messages = Standard
Pool = Default
Full Backup Pool = FullPool
Incremental Backup Pool = IncPool
Differential Backup Pool = DiffPool
Priority = 10
Prune Files = yes
}
Job {
Name = "fondue-files"
JobDefs = "FullIncDiff"
Write Bootstrap = "/srv/bacula/fondue.bsr"
Client = fondue-fd
FileSet = "Standard Server"
Schedule = "WeeklyCycle"
}
Schedule {
Name = "WeeklyCycle"
Run = Full 1st sun at 1:05
Run = Differential 2nd-5th sun at 1:05
Run = Incremental mon-sat at 1:05
}
Client {
Name = fondue-fd
Address = fondue
FDPort = 9102
Catalog = MyCatalog
Password = "secret" # password for FileDaemon
File Retention = 60 days # 30 days
Job Retention = 6 months # six months
AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired Jobs/Files
}
###############
### STORAGE ###
###############
Storage {
Name = File
Address = fondue.internal
SDPort = 9103
Password = "pBI91oP76GMxFJcM4Q31KjNJU8hNdMZc71tX5mnq4NrU"
Device = FileStorage
Media Type = File
}
Pool {
Name = FullPool
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes # automatically recycle
Volumes
AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
Volume Retention = 6 months
#Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
Label Format = Full-
Maximum Volumes = 120
Maximum Volume Bytes = 4831838208 # 4.5GB
}
Pool {
Name = IncPool
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes # automatically recycle Volumes
AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
Volume Retention = 14 days
#Maximum Volume Jobs = 6
Label Format = Inc-
Maximum Volumes = 25
Maximum Volume Bytes = 4831838208 # 4.5GB
}
Pool {
Name = DiffPool
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 35 days
#Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
Label Format = Diff-
Maximum Volumes = 10
}
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Leah Kubik : m416-559-6511 : www.heinous.org
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