If I understand the manual correctly, the moment Bacula hits the 'Maximum Volume Bytes' it will stop using that volume (the manual says "This value is checked and the Used status set while the job is writing to the particular volume.")
What I am looking for is a way to check the volume we are just about to use, and purge it if it there are more than x bytes used. The specific scenario is 5 x 120GB external USB disks used on a rotating basis. The operator just removes the current disk each morning and attaches the next one in the queue. There is only about 25G being backed up each night at the moment, so I want Bacula to be able to look at the volume that is currently plugged in, and if it has more than (say) 80GB on it, it will purge it and start anew, otherwise it will just append. This gives us the maximum amount of available history to restore from. An alternative would be to place several Bacula volumes on each external disk (say 3) and treat them as 1 job per volume, but currently each volume name is written in texta on the physical case of the external disk, and having more than one would make it more complicated than I think it needs to be for the operator. Any suggestions? Thanks James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
