Hello,
I've currently got a fileset, which is around 1.5 TB in size. I have setup Bacula to backup this fileset, by performing incremental backups every night - SharedData_Inc, differential backups every 2nd-5th Sunday - SharedData_Diff, then a full backup on the first Sunday of the month - SharedData_Full. Each of these pools are set to backup to their own storage device resources, under their respective names.
The server on which this data resides is called FileServer1. This is the client resource from bacula-dir.conf for FileServer1:
Client {
Name = FileServer1-fd
Address = FileServer1
FDPort = 9102
Catalog = MyCatalog
Password =
File Retention = 3 months
Job Retention = 3 months
AutoPrune = yes
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 2
}
My problem is that I am using Bacula to backup the SharedData fileset to an external 2TB RAID array, so I am somewhat limited in how much room my backups can take up. As the data within the fileset it relatively static, I would simply like to keep an up to date copy of the data on the external array, and I don't really need any sort of archive for this particular data. However there are other backups on the same client, for example the full system backups, SVN repo's, etc. which I would like to retain some backup history for.
So... I believed that I had overcome this by setting up my pools like this:
Pool {
Name = SharedData_Full
Pool Type = Backup
Volume Retention = 3 weeks
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
LabelFormat = SharedData_Full_
Maximum Volume Bytes = 1G
Storage = "SharedData_Full"
}
Pool {
Name = SharedData_Inc
Pool Type = Backup
Volume Retention = 6 days
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
LabelFormat = SharedData_Inc_
Maximum Volume Bytes = 1G
Storage = "SharedData_Inc"
}
Pool {
Name = SharedData_Diff
Pool Type = Backup
Volume Retention = 3 weeks
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
LabelFormat = SharedData_Diff_
Maximum Volume Bytes = 1G
Storage = "SharedData_Diff"
}
And for my other backups, which I want a backup history for (I do a full backup every week for my clients, so there's no diff pool):
Pool {
Name = FileServer1_Full
Pool Type = Backup
Volume Retention = 1 months
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
LabelFormat = FileServer1_Full_
Maximum Volume Bytes = 1G
Storage = "FileServer1_Full"
Next Pool = "FileServer1_Full_Copy"
}
Pool {
Name = FileServer1_Inc
Pool Type = Backup
Volume Retention = 1 months
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
LabelFormat = FileServer1_Inc_
Maximum Volume Bytes = 1G
Storage = "FileServer1_Inc"
Next Pool = "FileServer1_Inc_Copy"
}
However, the more I re-read the Bacula manual and through the list archive, the more I'm concerned that my settings for my SharedData pools may not be setup to give the behaviour that I require, as I am specifying a File and Job retention of 3 months in my client resource but a Volume retention which is much less, to satisfy by space limitation - Does this mean that even though my volume retention is under one month for full backups, my File/Job retention would stop the volumes from being overwritten, and thus fill up my backup array?
Would anyone be able to say whether or not they think the way I have set this up is correct? Or if they have any suggestions on how I could improve this?
I would appreciate any input anyone has on this.
Thanks,
Joe Nyland
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