Hi, On 5/29/2007 9:35 PM, Bob Gamble wrote: > Hello, > > When I first started using bacula about 5 months ago, I used one > volume for everything.
Oh. That's not really a good idea. > All seemed to be fine until I realized how > quickly I was going to use up the 2.5 terabytes. At the time, I > wrongly assumed six months would pass and I would have plenty of space > after the volume was recycled. > > Now, I have very little space left. I've split each backup into their > own pools (as described in > http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Automated_Disk_Backup.html > <http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Automated_Disk_Backup.html>) and the > large volume is no longer being written to as of the first week of > May. If I understand the documentation correctly I can recapture hard > drive space like this: > > Change the VolRetention period to three months instead of six (which I did) > > Set Autoprune and Recycle to Yes > > I'm hoping the VolRetention is measured from when the volume was first > used, which is back in January or February, No, the retention period starts when the volume was last used. Otherwise, you might lose valid backups. > and that even though the > available disk space on the bacula server shows less than 100 gb left, > it will overwrite space that has been taken up by the single large > volume when another volume needs the space. No, it will overwrite th huge volume only when it's recycled, which will not happen before the retention time has passed. > That is essentially my question. If I understand correctly, since > bacula holds on to data as long is it can until more space is needed, > will the bacula server at some point, always have a full hard drive? Not necessarily. In your setup, though, probably. > If I'm wrong, when does it clear the space taken by expired retention > periods? I wonder what options I have to save the last three months > of backups from the large volume while removing the backups whose time > has expired. Is there a way to do this? Set up migration (you'll need a second sorage device for it which could use the same archive directory) and migrate the valid jobs from the huge volume. Afterwards, manually recycle that volume. When it's re-used, Bacula will truncate it and your disk space will look much nicer :-) > Or do I need to just remove > the large volume to make more space? Thank you for any tips. That would be the simplest solution, but you will lose some backups you might consider valuable. Arno > -- > BobG > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
