Hello Jérôme,

2011/6/6 Jérôme Blion <jerome.bl...@free.fr>

> On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 15:45:24 +0200, Buschini Edouard <m...@ijaal.net>
> wrote:
> > Hi Alan,
> >
> > Thank you for you answer.
> >
> > 2011/6/6 Alan Brown <a...@mssl.ucl.ac.uk>
> >
> >> Buschini Edouard wrote:
> >>
> >>  But today we have a big problem, we didn't anticipate a growing like
> >>  that,
> >>> on our FS we are at 97% of space used. It's very problematic. And
> since
> >>> 1
> >>> week I'm working on free more space but it's very complicated with
> >>> Bacula.
> >>> I've search every where but I didn't find any exploitable answers so
> I'm
> >>> asking here.
> >>> Do you have a prefered method to do the following task :
> >>>
> >>
> >> 1: Can you add more storage?
> >>
> >> I can but I would like to do some clean up before. Add space disk
> > move temporarily the issue :(
> >
> >
> >> 2: Why not use tape?
> >>
> > I don't know when I arrived in the company it has already been designed
> > like
> > that : Dell server with 15kSAS raid10
>
> Hello,
>
> You should set :
>  - Maximum Volume Bytes
>  - Maximum Volumes
>  - Volume Retention
>  - Job Retention
>  - File Retention
> according to the space you can use. Volumes should be recycled then and
> will never fill up your filesystem.
>

Yep that's I understood, so if I set the File retention to 1 month, my
volume automatically is marked as purged and next time it will be prune and
truncated right ?

If you still don't have enough space, that means:
>  - you need to buy some hardware

 - you need to change one (or more) of these parameters to fit your
> filesystem.
>

Agreed, the main policy was to backup 6 full, so 1 full per month.

>
> If you only prune old jobs without modifying your backup strategy, you
> will have the same problem in few weeks... or even few days...
>
>
I totally agree with you I planed to review the backup strategy in two
weeks, but I needed to clean some old or unused job.

> HTH.
> Jérôme Blion.
>
>
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