On 2/8/21 5:10 PM, Robert Adesam wrote:
Dear Bacula users,
after each nightly backup session I run a catalogue backup job making
a full backup of the catalogue. A single full catalogue backup is now
about 15GB and increasing... As of today I estimate I in total have
1.4TB of catalogue backups. The file retention is set to 180 days and
jobs retention to 365 days for the client doing the catalogue backup.
I suppose it is not necessary to have more than a couple of full
backups of the catalogue? What would be the best way to implement
this? A new Pool with a volume retention set to a low number?
You can use a new Pool with a combination of
Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
Maximum Volumes = <number of backups to keep>
Recycle = yes
Purge Oldest Volume = yes
This will maintain a constant number of backups, purging and recycling
the oldest volume at each run. I only ever make full backups of the
catalog, since the backup script dumps the catalog DB to a SQL file and
then backs up that single file.
Yours sincerely, Robert Adesam.
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