Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas escreveu: >> De: John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Assunto: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Catalog File - How to reduce its size >> Para: "Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Data: Terça-feira, 18 de Novembro de 2008, 23:18 >> >>> 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... >> >> One point I did not mention. If you change the retention >> period for a >> pool any labeled volumes will not automatically get the new >> retention >> period. To fix this use the >> >> update volume >> >> command in bconsole and follow the prompts. >> >> > > John, I've done the following instructions: > > * purge volume=Catalogo > * update volume=Catalogo > Selected 4 days for VolumeRetention and 100MB for MaxVolBytes and Recycle=1 > * llist volumes > Pool: Default > MediaId: 2 > VolumeName: Catalogo > Slot: 0 > PoolId: 1 > MediaType: File > FirstWritten: 2008-08-14 01:24:40 > LastWritten: 2008-11-18 23:10:10 > LabelDate: 2008-08-14 01:24:40 > VolJobs: 68 > VolFiles: 0 > VolBlocks: 11,716 > VolMounts: 68 > VolBytes: 753,664,066 > VolErrors: 0 > VolWrites: 11,717 > VolCapacityBytes: 0 > VolStatus: Purged > Enabled: 1 > Recycle: 1 > VolRetention: 345,600 > VolUseDuration: 0 > MaxVolJobs: 0 > MaxVolFiles: 0 > MaxVolBytes: 100,000,000 > InChanger: 0 > EndFile: 0 > EndBlock: 753,664,065 > VolParts: 0 > LabelType: 0 > StorageId: 1 > DeviceId: 0 > LocationId: 0 > RecycleCount: 0 > InitialWrite: 0000-00-00 00:00:00 > ScratchPoolId: 0 > RecyclePoolId: 0 > Comment: NULL > > > My question is: tonight bacula will run the nightly backup. Will the Catalog > backup file shrink from 750MB to less than 100MB? Or should I do anything > else? > I'm writing just to tell you that it worked. I only could verify now that the file has shrinked from 750MB to 12MB after the above procedures.
Thank you, John. 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
