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.
>
>
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