Hi folks,
I recently modified my Bacula config files to stop backing up to DAT
tape and start backing up to disk on our new Infrant ReadyNAS device.
I essentially followed the advice in the "Automated Disk Backup"
chapter of the manual and created separate pools for full backups,
differential backups, incremental backups, and catalog backups.
This raised a question for me: how many catalog backups should I keep?
My guess is that we don't really need to keep a large number of
catalog backups, since frankly they'd be obsolete once the next
catalog backup is written. At the current moment I have my catalog
pool set with "Maximum Volume Jobs = 1" and "Maximum Volumes = 7",
which (should) limit it to the most seven catalog backup files.
Basically, I don't want to use an undue amount of disk space for
backup files that might not be particularly useful.
I'm curious as to what the general consensus among the Bacula user
community is, regarding this subject. I saw a post from Arno from last
year saying that he recycles catalog backups quickly by placing them
in the same pool as incremental backups, but I thought that perhaps
this question could use to be discussed a bit more explicitly.
Thanks,
Jody
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