On Wednesday 23 May 2007 08:26:43 am Ivan Adzhubey wrote: > On Wednesday 23 May 2007 02:20:42 am Ralf Gross wrote: > > Ivan Adzhubey schrieb: > > > I have Bacula configured to use spooling to disk. I can see a few > > > rather old (timestamped from 6 months to 2 years ago) spool files > > > sitting in the spooling directory. Can I assume these are leftovers > > > from some crashed backup jobs and thus can I safely remove them? They > > > use quite some space. My understanding is that after a full successful > > > backup cycle, Bacula should leave spooling directory empty, right? It > > > first spools, then dumps everything to tape, then deletes spool files, > > > am I correct? > > > > That's how it works here, it should be ok to remove these files. > > Thanks, Ralf. Time for spring cleaning...
One more question: currently, the size of my spooling directory is 250GB and I need to add another server to backup list that holds 1.1TB of data. Will that create problems? On a more general note: how do you guys deal with huge datasets? This server is projected to accumulate 12TB of data in the next 18 months and I was asked to have them all backed up on tape, even though disks are in a RAID5 on a hardware controller (3ware). I am wondering, have anybody had any experience with Bacula working on a really large amounts of data? Thanks, Ivan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
