Am 23.11.2010 21:50, schrieb John Drescher: >> Which parts does bacula do, which does it not? >> >>> - Start a job, >>> - look for an empty volume, if none there, create one, than label it > > It looks here for an appendable volume. Although if all of your > volumes are use volume once /max jobs =1 it will only find empty ones.
Does this mean bacula does not automatically create volumes as needed if storage is "File"? Would be a nice feature. Else: is there a way to mass create volumes? I've calculated about 70 volumes per host I've to backup ... >>> - push it into the pool, mount it. > > You probably already want the volume in the correct pool. There is a > scratch pool that can pull new volumes out of into your pool but I am > not sure that will help or do what you want. This would be enough --- if volumes recycled are relabelled. If they keep there label I'd have to look for a way remove labels from volumes not used any more. >>> - backup the jobs data. > > usually no problem if the last step succeed. > >>> - after finishing keep the volume with this one job arround > > this is the default operation/ :-) >>> - delete it when retention time has come and there is >>> not enough space for a new volume. > > Bacula does not delete volumes when the retention period expires or it > runs out of space. It will purge volumes when there are no available > volumes in the pool and one is needed at the moment for a job. If you > want different functionality than the default you will have to script > this. I'd do it. But at first bacula would have to run and use volumes as necessary. Most of the time bacula shall run without any intervention by anyone! -- Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
