<mangabbs AT hotmail DOT com> kirjoitti 
viestissä:BLU0-SMTP682A43B3A01C8737020B11CA650 AT phx DOT gbl...
> Hello,
>
> I would like that bacula truncate the backup. IMHO it is really important 
> and
> I'll explain you why.
>
> Lets assume you backup multiple server, each server has is own backup 
> policy.
> You have a total of storage space of 100GB.
> You have 10 server, each one with 10gb of space to be backed up.
>
> One night, one of the server become crazy and you have20 GB of data to 
> backup
> instead of 10.
>
> This way you will probably loose more than one backup job, because the 
> lack of
> space.
>
> Please consider that this is a normal behaviour in our environment 
> (anybody
> else need more space for bacula? :)). When you do not control directly the 
> FD
> clients, your backup strategies cannot be planned carefully because 
> depends
> from the System Administrator that can do mistake, can forget the global
> backup policies, and usually simple do not think that the backup storage 
> space
> is not unlimited.
>

Maybe a workaround could be limiting the run time for a backup job? That's 
something Bacula can do, and given the backup speed is roughly known it 
should also result in rough limit of storage space.

--
TiN 



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