John Drescher escreveu: >> What would happen if I just deleted the Catalog backup file? What is the >> reason about backing up multiple catalog backups? Why just the last one (or >> the last 3) is not enough? >> >> > > Wait a minute. I think I misunderstood your question. > > You have a disk based volume for your catalog backups? > > And this file is growing with each backup? > > If so this is normal if you did not tell bacula to limit its size or > its usage in any way. > > See the docs: > http://bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html > > You need to set one of the following directives: > * Use Volume Once = yes > * Volume Use Duration = ttt > * Maximum Volume Jobs = nnn > * Maximum Volume Bytes = mmm > > And if you are sure that your current catalog is not corrupted, I > would just purge that volume file. Remember bacula will never reduce > the size of a disk volume if you purge individual jobs from the > volume. Purging a volume (tape, dvd, disk ...) is all or nothing. > > John > > Thank you very much, John. That's exactly what I need and I think I understood what is the hole idea here. I'll check the manuals for understanding what those options mean. Tomorrow morning I'll do my tests. If I have additional doubts, I'll ask you. I'm not sure if I would need to recycle the backup file regularly, manually, or creating new volumes...
Thank you for your explanations. Rodrigo. __________________________________________________ Faça ligações para outros computadores com o novo Yahoo! Messenger http://br.beta.messenger.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
