On 04/08/10 03:16, Rex Chan wrote:
>
>> Honestly, the truth is that free space monitoring isn't Bacula's job.
>> Bacula doesn't know what else it's sharing disk space with.
>>
>> That said, the subject has come up before; there has been discussion
>> of how best to handle the problem. Nothing has been implemented yet
>> though. As best I recall, the general conclusion of the discussion
>> was that there needed to be some kind of minimum free space directive
>> for disk pools, such that Bacula would decline to create any new
>> volumes if there was less than [directive value] free space on the
>> device. I'm not sure whether this has actively gone anywhere yet.
>
> As a workaround, can a run before job script be responsible for
> detecting the condition and then terminating the job?
That certainly ought to work. A properly written script, passed the
client name and level, should even be able to make an informed guess at
roughly how much disk the job should require.
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