Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes on full disk - lots of 0 byte files

2010-04-08 03:18:33
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes on full disk - lots of 0 byte files
From: Rex Chan <rex AT ish.com DOT au>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:16:26 +1000
 
> Honestly, the truth is that free space monitoring isn't Bacula's job.
> Bacula doesn't know what else it's sharing disk space with.
> 
> That said, the subject has come up before; there has been discussion
> of how best to handle the problem.  Nothing has been implemented yet
> though.  As best I recall, the general conclusion of the discussion
> was that there needed to be some kind of minimum free space directive
> for disk pools, such that Bacula would decline to create any new
> volumes if there was less than [directive value] free space on the
> device.  I'm not sure whether this has actively gone anywhere yet.

As a workaround, can a run before job script be responsible for
detecting the condition and then terminating the job? 

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