On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 08:57:43PM +0000, Stephen Pierce wrote: > I've been using Bacula for only a few weeks, so I haven't gotten to the point > where my first backup job is older than my retension time (30 days). However, > when I used to do backups on real tape (~1998), I would recycle a piece of > tape media once all jobs on the tape were beyond the retention time. > > Since Bacula treats disk storage like tape media, can Bacula recycle old > file-based media too? If it could, then you wouldn't need to delete old disk > volumes, just have them automatically or manually recycled. > > Does anyone have any experience with automatic or manual recycling of > disk-storage media? > > Steve
Sure thing, bacula handles disk based volumes quite well. You can define a maximum number of volumes in a pool and have bacula auto-label them and then, as the pool fills up and reaches its max no. of volumes, bacula will recycle the oldest volume in the pool and truncate / overwrite it in the process. Check the docs on pool definitions, there's a plethora of options to provide you with very fine grained volume / pool handling. Cheers, Uwe > > -----Original Message----- > From: Humphrey Bryant [mailto:hbry...@fogadaley.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 12:59 PM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How to remove disk volumes. > > Nice write up! > Thnx mch.. > On 03/13/2013 10:48 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > > I just did something similar recently. Hope this helps: > > > > http://dan.langille.org/2013/03/07/deleting-old-bacula-volumes/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- NIONEX --- Ein Unternehmen der Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
