Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog size problem

2008-09-25 08:24:13
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog size problem
From: Foo Bar <bfoo33 AT yahoo.co DOT uk>
To: bacula-users <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:18:29 +0000 (GMT)
--- On Wed, 10/9/08, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

> > So it looks like the daily database is dumped to the
> > catalog and never purged?
>
> If you do not limit the size of this volume or the use
> duration it will never purge. Since bacula will only purge a
> volume that is marked Used or Full. This is the same with any
> volume in bacula.

Sorry for taking so long to answer, you are of course correct, I just had to 
wrap my head around this, too busy with other stuff most of the time :)

I added a second catalog volume and retention times to the first one so the 
catalog backup cycles between them with a period of overlap.


      

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