Re: [Bacula-users] Aggressively prune (and truncate) file volumes on Progressive backups...

2024-10-02 Thread Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users
On 10/2/24 10:00 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Mandi! Gary R. Schmidt In chel di` si favelave... RTFM again, it took me about three goes to understand it - and I've been doing backups since 9-track tape drives were vertical! Mmmm... i've found references to scratch pool but really i've nefe

Re: [Bacula-users] Aggressively prune (and truncate) file volumes on Progressive backups...

2024-10-02 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Gary R. Schmidt In chel di` si favelave... > RTFM again, it took me about three goes to understand it - and I've been > doing backups since 9-track tape drives were vertical! Mmmm... i've found references to scratch pool but really i've nefer understood; if i look in docs i found a

Re: [Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

2024-10-02 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Josip Deanovic via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... >> Bacula will just do it. Nothing special required. > This statement might be misleading in this particular case Marco > described. > Bacula will be able to run incremental backup but if the mountpoint is > changing every time

Re: [Bacula-users] Debug and trace

2024-10-02 Thread Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users
On 10/2/24 8:34 AM, Mehrdad R. wrote: Hi guys So I am trying to trace the backup to verify that files are correctly scanned and backup especially in diff. mode, I am testing backing up a directory on a window server(Local windows FD and SD backing up to a local disk on the server) which contains

[Bacula-users] Debug and trace

2024-10-02 Thread Mehrdad R.
Hi guys So I am trying to trace the backup to verify that files are correctly scanned and backup especially in diff. mode, I am testing backing up a directory on a window server(Local windows FD and SD backing up to a local disk on the server) which contains around 200k files in around 5k directori

Re: [Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

2024-10-02 Thread Dan Langille
On Tue, Oct 1, 2024, at 3:42 AM, Josip Deanovic via Bacula-users wrote: > On 2024-10-01 03:16, Dan Langille wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 30, 2024, at 10:48 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote: >>> Mandi! Dan Langille >>> In chel di` si favelave... >>> From https://dan.langille.org/2023/12/24/backing-up-

Re: [Bacula-users] A question about volumeRetention

2024-10-02 Thread Chris Wilkinson
I posted a link to it on the the list a couple of days ago. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WOFIjgZMx-XL2Jv7FqGupnjctLpUEhLG/view?usp=drivesdk -Chris- On Wed, 2 Oct 2024, 13:29 Mehrdad Ravanbod, wrote: > Hi > > Thanks for your resonse, I am curious, what kinda script do you use to > delete pu

Re: [Bacula-users] A question about volumeRetention

2024-10-02 Thread Mehrdad Ravanbod
Hi Thanks for your resonse, I am curious, what kinda script do you use to delete purged volumes?? Do u run it in a bacula job or outside of bacula a cron/Scheduler job?? Sincerely /Mehrdad On 2024-10-02 14:04, Chris Wilkinson wrote: I've never properly understood the scratch pool concept an

Re: [Bacula-users] A question about volumeRetention

2024-10-02 Thread Chris Wilkinson
I've never properly understood the scratch pool concept and i never use it. I use disc volumes so there seems no reason to return an expired volume to a scratch pool. I let Bacula expire and truncate them and create new volumes as needed. Every so often i use a script to delete the purged volumes f