John Drescher wrote: >> I am learning how to use bacula to back up to external hard disks. >> Everything works beautifully, but I notice that after a volume is purged >> or pruned, it gets status "Recycled" and the actual file on disk stays. >> That looks like perfect behavior for a tape backup, but for a hard disk >> backup, I would like to be able to completely delete the volume from the >> database, and also delete the corresponding file on the hard disk so it >> no longer takes up space. >> >> > Bacula does not have this feature. I would just limit the disk volumes > to a few GB and at the proper time the disk volumes will be reused. > > John > That might well be a good solution, and address a couple other things, too. I suppose I have been too used to tar-style backups, where each backup ended up in a separate file. But you are right, it doesn't have to be organized that way.
Do you by any chance have a sample bacula-dir.conf that would illustrate how this would work? What would be a good choice for the volume limit? I am backing up a total of seven machines; the largest is a 70 GB backup (full), the smallest is less than 1 GB. I would like to keep them all in the same pool because I quite frequently add or remove machines, and don't want to have to reorganize the pools all the time. A second question I was going to post in a separate thread, but now it seems related: I have two external USB/eSATA drives, and can't figure out how to get bacula to rotate them on a weekly basis so I can take one of them off site. Kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
