On 4/1/2011 2:56 AM, Alan Brown wrote: > Randy Katz wrote: > >> I have a Full being created every month with a 3 Volume Retention and >> a Time of 60d then there should never be a time when >> there is no Full before Diff/Incr's, right? > > Correct, but with monthly fulls you should set the time to 90-100 days. > >> If I wanted a 180 day cycle then would want to extend that to the >> incrementals and >> diffs as well, right? > > yes. > > When the volume carrying the oldest full backup expires, the > subsequent diffs/incrementals are useless but leaving them in place > won't hurt. > > If you prune them all out immediately there's a possibility that the > temporary increase in available volumes may result in you not spotting > a need for more tapes/disk space as overall usage creeps up, until you > need the things urgently. (It's a lot easier to purge a couple of > volumes close to expiry than to have to hold up backups while waiting > for more LTO5s to be delivered.) >
Alan, thanks for your help, now if I could only get this good a response from the Linux-HA list (hehe), be well! Regards, Randy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
