Re: [Bacula-users] dummy job

2025-01-06 Thread Christophe PEREZ via Bacula-users
Hi Rob, Thanks. I had almost arrived at this type of solution, but a little less clean. Le lundi 06 janvier 2025 à 17:07 -0600, Rob Gerber a écrit : > Dummy resources are certainly possible. > > A fileset like you describe could simply lack any file definitions. > It's that simple, I think. Bi

Re: [Bacula-users] dummy job

2025-01-06 Thread Christophe PEREZ via Bacula-users
Hi Arno, Thanks. I didn't even think that you could not designate any files in the fileSet. Le mardi 07 janvier 2025 à 00:13 +0100, Arno Lehmann via Bacula-users a écrit : > Hi Christophe, > > Am 06.01.2025 um 22:36 schrieb Christophe PEREZ via Bacula-users: > > Hi, > > > > With Bacula 15.0.2,

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic recycling with a single volume per device?

2025-01-06 Thread David Waller via Bacula-users
You might also want to look at recycle. Ensure yours pools are set to recycle, then the volumes will get reused. There is an example in the manual to set up a system on disks that create three pools, for incremental, diff and full and recycles the volumes as necessary. If you modify the example

Re: [Bacula-users] dummy job

2025-01-06 Thread Arno Lehmann via Bacula-users
Hi Christophe, Am 06.01.2025 um 22:36 schrieb Christophe PEREZ via Bacula-users: Hi, With Bacula 15.0.2, is it possible in your opinion, to create a completely dummy job? That's possible and not uncommon... more or less for exactly the reason you mentioned, just use a file set that has no ac

Re: [Bacula-users] dummy job

2025-01-06 Thread Rob Gerber
Dummy resources are certainly possible. A fileset like you describe could simply lack any file definitions. It's that simple, I think. Bill A has some dummy definitions he uses, and I've adopted them. I've pasted a past email from Bill on this subject below. The words below this line were written

[Bacula-users] dummy job

2025-01-06 Thread Christophe PEREZ via Bacula-users
Hi, With Bacula 15.0.2, is it possible in your opinion, to create a completely dummy job? What FileSet to put to have no backup? The goal is to send a command to the Storage daemon (so on a client) at the end of the backup. Thanks in advance! -- Christophe PEREZ

Re: [Bacula-users] freeing up space on LTO-8 tape

2025-01-06 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 06.01.2025 um 20:01 schrieb Adam Weremczuk: Hi all, Key points: 1. Bacula 9.6.7 on Debian 11. 2. The tape is almost full with some old Bacula backups which I don't care about. 3. I want to wipe it clean making space for new data. 4. I don't care about secure removal. 5. Ideally, I would prefe

Re: [Bacula-users] freeing up space on LTO-8 tape

2025-01-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 1/6/25 14:01, Adam Weremczuk wrote: Hi all, Key points: 1. Bacula 9.6.7 on Debian 11. 2. The tape is almost full with some old Bacula backups which I don't care about. 3. I want to wipe it clean making space for new data. 4. I don't care about secure removal. 5. Ideally, I would prefer to lea

[Bacula-users] freeing up space on LTO-8 tape

2025-01-06 Thread Adam Weremczuk
Hi all, Key points: 1. Bacula 9.6.7 on Debian 11. 2. The tape is almost full with some old Bacula backups which I don't care about. 3. I want to wipe it clean making space for new data. 4. I don't care about secure removal. 5. Ideally, I would prefer to leave the label and pool assignment as t

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic recycling with a single volume per device?

2025-01-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 1/6/25 10:29, Dillon Andreas wrote: My problem is that even though the jobs are being removed, the data from the jobs is not and the volumes fill up and once they are full, they are unusable until I go in and manually purge the volume. Is there a way to make what I am doing work, or should I

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic recycling with a single volume per device?

2025-01-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 1/6/25 10:29, Dillon Andreas wrote: Hi all, My problem is that even though the jobs are being removed, the data from the jobs is not and the volumes fill up and once they are full, they are unusable until I go in and manually purge the volume. Is there a way to make what I am doing work, or

[Bacula-users] Automatic recycling with a single volume per device?

2025-01-06 Thread Dillon Andreas
Hi all, I am having an issue setting up bacula with regards to volume management. I set up bacula on a server with 2 partitions set up as folders that I created as devices in a single pool. I have a single volume labeled for each device, and set up a daily backup schedule that alternates each