Re: [Bacula-users] Managing disk space for Bacula Backups

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Gumprich, Sebastian
<Sebastian.Gumprich AT t-systems DOT com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> for my company I’ve set up a bacula-server which backups several clients to
> an NFS.
>
> The NFS is mounted on the Bacula-server and has 500GBs space.
>
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> I have to back up about 50 clients.
>
> I do full backups on Saturdays and incremental backups every other day.
>
> I set the file and job retention to 14 days for every client, AutoPrune is
> on.
>
> Every client writes into its own pool on the NFS. Every pool can contain a
> maximum of 20 volumes and I use every volume only once.
>
> The also get recycled and autopruned.
>
> The volume retention period is set to 14 days.
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> So all retention periods are 14 days.
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> With this configuration, the 500GB space are usually sufficient to store 3
> full backups and several incremental backups of all the hosts.
>
>
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> Now my problem is the following:
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>
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> If I make full backups from all the clients, on my own outside of the
> schedule, the 500GBs are full, but Bacula doesn’t recycle the older volumes,
> because the retention period and max. volumes limit is not reached.
>
>
>
> So what are my options?
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>
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> -       Increase the storage (possible, but only a workaround?)
>
> -       Manually delete the files that are older than 14 days on the NFS
> (what I’m currently doing)
>
> -       ???

Use the purge command manually to purge the oldest volumes. You can
find the oldest volumes using a query or in bat.

John

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