Greetings!
In response to a recent posting here, I changed the "Recycle = yes"
that I had in my bacula-dir.conf file to "Recycle = no".
Used to, though the backup would (sometimes) overwrite an existing
filename, it said that it was completely removing what was there and
placing a new backup set in the file, even if the filename was recycled
instead of being deleted. Here's an example:
<<>>
07-Jul 01:05 barrycon-dir: Start Backup JobId 397,
Job=barryconSimpleTech.2007-07-07_01.05.01
07-Jul 01:05 barrycon-dir: Recycled volume "Full-2006-6-3-1-5-3"
07-Jul 01:05 barrycon-sd: Recycled volume "Full-2006-6-3-1-5-3" on device
"SimpleTech" (/media/simpletech), all previous data lost.
<<>>
This was okay.
Here are the same portion of the emails from this morning's backup:
<<>>
11-Aug 01:05 barrycon-dir: Start Backup JobId 417,
Job=barryconSimpleTech.2007-08-11_01.05.01
11-Aug 01:05 barrycon-sd: Volume "Diff-2006-7-15-1-5-5" previously written,
moving to end of data.
<<>>
I don't want an old backup file to still have the data it had before.
Therefore, I believe I will change my "Recycle" back to yes, because this
way, even if it did sometimes reuse an old file, instead of creating a new
one, each file had only the backup information from the most recent
backup.
I did, and am still working on a script to "fine tune" it, also in
response to the recent message I posted here, just have a script remove
files older than about six months. (I'm still "fine tuning" how long to
hold the backup data, between how much space is on my USB drives, etc.)
If I am missing something, and didn't do fully correctly from my
recent posting, please let me know.
Thank you.
Barry
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