<manga...@hotmail.com> kirjoitti viestissä:blu0-smtp682a43b3a01c8737020b11ca...@phx.gbl... > Hello, > > I would like that bacula truncate the backup. IMHO it is really important > and > I'll explain you why. > > Lets assume you backup multiple server, each server has is own backup > policy. > You have a total of storage space of 100GB. > You have 10 server, each one with 10gb of space to be backed up. > > One night, one of the server become crazy and you have20 GB of data to > backup > instead of 10. > > This way you will probably loose more than one backup job, because the > lack of > space. > > Please consider that this is a normal behaviour in our environment > (anybody > else need more space for bacula? :)). When you do not control directly the > FD > clients, your backup strategies cannot be planned carefully because > depends > from the System Administrator that can do mistake, can forget the global > backup policies, and usually simple do not think that the backup storage > space > is not unlimited. >
Maybe a workaround could be limiting the run time for a backup job? That's something Bacula can do, and given the backup speed is roughly known it should also result in rough limit of storage space. -- TiN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
