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Re: [Bacula-users] Managing my disk space with Volume Pools?

2010-01-21 18:57:26
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Managing my disk space with Volume Pools?
From: Arno Lehmann <al AT its-lehmann DOT de>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:54:12 +0100
Hi,

21.01.2010 16:47, Mr Gabriel wrote:
> I've managed to get my bacula install up and running pretty well. What I 
> want to do now, is to divide up where I store my backups, because some 
> are not as important as others. For example, I want to store all our 
> current working data in a different place to the default.
> 
> Do I create a new volume, and just reference that in jobs instead?

Use the word "Pool" instead of "Volume", and you're right where you 
want to be.

> I've 
> found that we have just over 4 TB of data, and I'd rather have my 
> dailies, my weeklies, and my monthlies, all on diffrent disks, obeying 
> different rules.

Different disks: Create a storage device pointing to each disk, and 
use that for the different pools.

Different rules: Set in the pool definition.

Cheers,

Arno

> For example, my dailies only need to last a week, because after that, 
> any data should find it's way into the weeklies. Just to be safe, and 
> make sure that I got everything, I'd like for my dailies to expire after 
> a month, so I can reclaim the disk space
> 
> 
> Any typos, and bad use of terminology is apologised for upfront, i've 
> been in front of my terminals for near on 24 hours, and my brain is 
> wobbling :)
> 
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