On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:41 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
>> Could you point to some online docs on how to do it. Currently I have
>> one volume with a size of 567GB, and my space is running low. How
>> should the volumes be setup? 100gb each, and how do I set the rotation
>> so it knows to pick next volume, or create next volume.
>>
>
> I do not have a guide but I do have ideas. Do you have any other
> machine on your network that can hold this 567GB volume? If you do and
> you can transfer the volume file to the other machine you can setup
> the second machine with a storage daemon to hold the backup data. Mark
> this volume Used or full using update volume
>
> Then fix your current setup. Limit the pool size for new volumes so
> that you do not get into this situation.
>
> http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html
>
> Maximum Volume Bytes = 10G
>
> I use 2G, 5G and 10G in a lot of my disk pools.
>
> At this point you can continue with backups on the original storage
> daemon. If you can not wait for the retention time to expire you could
> possibly use migration to migrate jobs from the large volume to the
> new storage daemon. I have never used this feature so someone else
> will have to say if this will work across 2 storage daemons.
>
> If you have any problems or questions ask the list. I will try to help
> if I can add anything (that I consider useful) to the conversation..
>
> John
>



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John M. Drescher

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