> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Adrian Reyer [mailto:bacula-lists AT lihas DOT de]
> Gesendet: Montag, 5. November 2012 22:46
> An: Gumprich, Sebastian
> Cc: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Betreff: Re: [Bacula-users] Managing disk space for Bacula Backups
> 
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 01:45:25PM +0100, Gumprich, Sebastian wrote:
> > I see no downsides with this, except that I don't have backups that
> > are older than 14 days, but that's not needed.
> > The problem with recycling oldest volumes is, when Bacula uses the
> > oldest volumes, it would use 5 incremental, small volumes, when the
> > large full-backup-volumes are still there, taking up disk space.
> > Any workaround to this, except for manually searching for old volumes
> > and deleting them?
> 
> Erm, if you delete the Full the Incrementals are based on, you can throw away 
> the
> Incrementals just as well in almost all cases. So if you e.g.
> do 1 Full every week, rest incrementals and radically delete everything that 
> is older
> than 14 days, you can restore 1-2 wekks, depending on the date of failure. In 
> that
> case an official retention period of 1 week is much more honest together with
> recycle oldes volumes.
> 
> Regards,
>       Adrian
> --

Maybe I did not explain it clearly enough: I do fullbackups on Saturdays. I'd 
delete with my script on volumes that are older than 14 days on Fridays. This 
way the oldest backup would always be a fullbackup from Saturdays. So then 
incremental backups that happen the following days are based on the full backup 
on Saturday.
This way, I always have atleast a fullbackup that is younger than 14 days.
Atleast that's my plan to handle the disk-space automatically. :)
Any downsides?

Regards,
Sebastian
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