On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 10:37 +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote:
> > All the backups work fine, and my schedule runs nicely, however 2
> days
> > later, the first backup volumes are still on disk, making the SD run
> out
> > of disk space.  How can I make bacula drop those volumes ?
> 
> Limit the number of volumes per pool, i.e. set "Maximum Volumes" to 
> something reasonable (at least enough for three backup cycles, in my 
> opinion and usually).

Which brings me to ask more questions :)

If I limit the maximum volumes per pool, and the backup size is hard to
predict, it means that:

        - for large backup sets, I'm going to run out of volumes, and it will
start to recylce volumes which data I still wanted to keep

        - for smaller backup sets, I'm over allocating volume space in the hope
of not running out of volumes, wasting space.

Neither scenario is ideal.  Is there no better way ?


> 
> Arno
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