Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Recycling Of Volumes So You Don't Run Out Of Disk Space

2011-03-22 Thread Dermot Beirne
Larry, I have the same issue as you. I use the: Maximum Volumes = 30 in the pool to force it to start recycling volumes when it reaches this limit, rather than let the space run out. I'm not keen on the solution, as it's a fine balance between ensuring that it has enough volumes to complete the

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Recycling Of Volumes So You Don't Run Out Of Disk Space

2011-03-18 Thread John Drescher
> Thanks for the fast response John. Where can I verify that each volume is set > to recycle? > look at the output of list media pool=WhateverPoolYouCreated in bconsole > Kern's docs also state that you should make your volumes no bigger than 5 > gigabytes. I have set mine to 20 GB at present.

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Recycling Of Volumes So You Don't Run Out Of Disk Space

2011-03-18 Thread Larry Kemp
t: Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Recycling Of Volumes So You Don't Run Out Of Disk Space > My Question: > > I want to know is Bacula is smart enough to see once it goes past the > 10 day point pruning point, does it know to start reusing the oldest > volumes again, and only creatin

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Recycling Of Volumes So You Don't Run Out Of Disk Space

2011-03-18 Thread John Drescher
> My Question: > > I want to know is Bacula is smart enough to see once it goes past the 10 day > point pruning point, does it know to start reusing the oldest volumes again, > and only creating additional volumes when absolutely necessary? That is the way bacula works. Remember the following rul

[Bacula-users] Automatic Recycling Of Volumes So You Don't Run Out Of Disk Space

2011-03-18 Thread Larry Kemp
I would appreciate any help from anyone that has dealt with this specific aspect implementing or using Bacula. My Situation: I successfully deployed Bacula v5.0.3 on CentOS 5.5 on a 32bit Intel-based system in a production environment. Jobs were running great and backing up as scheduled. I set