Re: [Bacula-users] Help with auto purging/pruning

2012-06-13 Thread Tim Krieger
Hey Steve, I had something similar happen to me here, bacula will respect your retention policies, and your volume limit. So if you have 200 files and you have configured a limit of 205, when the next job starts, it will recycle anything it can, use any volume that is purged, then start creati

Re: [Bacula-users] Help with auto purging/pruning

2012-06-13 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 03:34:16AM -0700, sbooth wrote: > I did the volume cleanup and had just around the number of volumes needed (or > I thought). Then it started to work the way I expected in that it recycled > volumes that jobs had expired (7 days). But then one day someone put a 32Gb > o

Re: [Bacula-users] Help with auto purging/pruning

2012-06-11 Thread John Drescher
> Thanks for the reply.  I went throught and manually purge a lot of the jobs.   > What it seemed was happening was that it was auto creating a volume before it > would recycle. It will do that when you do not limit the number of volumes in your pool. > I am going to try to figure out just how m

Re: [Bacula-users] Help with auto purging/pruning

2012-06-01 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:53 PM, sbooth wrote: > I am confused about how to get backup jobs to be automatically removed and > for disk files to be recycled and reused for backs.  I created a schedule > that runs diff tues-friday morning and two different retention base backups > on Saturday mor