Hello, I have been searching the net a lot but I cannot find my answer.
Maybe some one here can help me out. I want to have this backup schedule Full backup the 1st of the month A differential backup on 8,15,22,28 of a month. Incremental backups on all the other days. 1) I like to know how to confure bacula to free the space used by the incremental backups after a differential backup completes correctly. I do not need the incremental backups made on the 2,3,4,5,6,7 day of the week anymore so I like that space back for the week next incremental backups. 2) the same for the differential backups. As soon as the next differential backup succeeds I need the previous differential backup to be cleared. 3) After the next full backup completes I need the space back the previous fullbackup took. otherwise it needs to keep the last good fullbackup. Of course it also need to free the space of the failed backups used. I am using filetapes and have limited hd space. Bacula only seems to talk about days to keep. but just a retension time of 31 days for a volume is dangerous. What if the next fullbackup fails. The same for the incrementals, I might set them to 7 days to keep but than I have 2 problems. 1 after a differential backup completes it will still keep the previous incremental backup data for 6 more days. This takes up a lot of space. 2 if the differential fails I wil loose my data too because the next day the first incremental from 7 days ago will be freed. I think it should be possible to backup 2 25gb systems on a 80 gd hd specially when using compression and doing a full backup every month. Any help how to configure this? Thanks Hans de Groot --- Hans de Groot Email: ha...@dandy.nl www: http://www.dandy.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
