Hi, That's what I thought, ok so I'm gonna change and let bacula do the job. Thank you again !
Regards, 2011/6/6 Jérôme Blion <jerome.bl...@free.fr> > On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 16:40:01 +0200, Buschini Edouard <m...@ijaal.net> > wrote: > > 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 ? > > Hello, > > The way I manage the disk space allows me not to worry on disk's usage. > I have no Maximum Volume jobs parameters. So, all volumes fill up until > "Maximum Volume Bytes" value. I rely on disk MTBF... > I won't have more than "Maximum Volumes"' value volumes. > I'm sure I won't grow over MVB x MV. I sized it to fill 90% of my FS. > > You can play with these 2 parameters to generate one file per day, per > week... as you want. > > Then I set up File and Job and Volume retention to what I need (in my > case, 30 days everywhere) > When a volume is full, Bacula will look for any appendable one. If there > are no one, it will look for an expired volume and will recycle it. > > In your case, to go back to a normal situation, you will have to change > all retention values... into the configuration but also in the database to > be sure your files/jobs/volumes will expire. Then you will just have to > watch Bacula recycle your volumes. > > I don't truncate them because I don't need to reclaim the space. > > HTH. > Jérôme Blion. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with > vRanger. > Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is > safe, > secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. > Get your free trial download today. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >
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